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1 | Writing about It: Documentation and Humanities Computing | 141 | Documentation is arguably the most important part of a humanities computing project's long-term existence, in two senses. First, in the sense that without it a project cannot maintain continuity and consistency; and second, in the sense that without it a project cannot communicate its methods to other members of the la... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Writing about It: Documentation and Humanities Computing | By: 141 | Documentation is arguably the most important part of a humanities computing project's long-term existence, in two senses. First, in the sense that without it a project cannot maintain continuity and consistency; and second, in the sense that without i... | ||
2 | Integration of Markup Languages and Object-Oriented Techniques in a Hypermedia Methodology | 3008; 3009; 3010; 606 | In this paper we present a hypermedia design and production methodology integrating markup languages and object-oriented techniques. This methodology tries to solve the main problems presented during hypermedia development, improving the communication between customers (content providers and interaction designers), and... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Integration of Markup Languages and Object-Oriented Techniques in a Hypermedia Methodology | By: 3008; 3009; 3010; 606 | In this paper we present a hypermedia design and production methodology integrating markup languages and object-oriented techniques. This methodology tries to solve the main problems presented during... | ||
3 | A Workbook Application for Digital Text Analysis | 242; 1821; 7707; 3011 | Introduction The workbook facility for scholars in the humanities aims to help them organize the results of their research in a convenient and easily accessible manner. The recent proliferation of marked-up electronic corpora has produced a need for tools that would allow structured search and extraction from texts. Ho... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | A Workbook Application for Digital Text Analysis | By: 242; 1821; 7707; 3011 | Introduction The workbook facility for scholars in the humanities aims to help them organize the results of their research in a convenient and easily accessible manner. The recent proliferation of marked-up electronic corpora has produced a ... | ||
4 | The Middle English Grammar Project | 3012; 2928 | The study of linguistic variation in Middle English has undergone a revolution in recent years, with the publication of the "Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English" (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986) and other important surveys. However, no thorough-going attempt has as yet been made to harness this new informati... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | The Middle English Grammar Project | By: 3012; 2928 | The study of linguistic variation in Middle English has undergone a revolution in recent years, with the publication of the "Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English" (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986) and other important surveys. However, no thorough-going atte... | ||
5 | Two Historical Linguistic Atlases | 3013; 3014 | The principal aim of the "Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English" (LAEME ) and the "Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots" (LAOS) is to produce historical linguistic atlases complementary to "A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English" (LALME)1. Computer-based data-processing and analysis have been employed in the projec... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Two Historical Linguistic Atlases | By: 3013; 3014 | The principal aim of the "Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English" (LAEME ) and the "Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots" (LAOS) is to produce historical linguistic atlases complementary to "A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English" (LALME)1. Computer-based data-pro... | ||
6 | WebCAPE - Language Placement Testing over the Web | 3015 | WebCAPE is a web-based implementation of the BYU Computer-Adaptive Placement Exam (CAPE) series. These exams use adaptive procedures to assess language ability, drawing from a large bank of calibrated test items. Tests are administered from a web server computer through the internet to a browser application on students... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | WebCAPE - Language Placement Testing over the Web | By: 3015 | WebCAPE is a web-based implementation of the BYU Computer-Adaptive Placement Exam (CAPE) series. These exams use adaptive procedures to assess language ability, drawing from a large bank of calibrated test items. Tests are administered from a web server com... | ||
7 | Technophobes, or the Nintendo Generation? A Study of the Use of ICT in Teaching and Learning in Modern Languages | 66 | Introduction This paper discuses the results of the application of a methodology typical to information science to humanities computing. User studies are widely performed in the library and information science community. However, although some research has been carried out into the information needs of researchers in t... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Technophobes, or the Nintendo Generation? A Study of the Use of ICT in Teaching and Learning in Modern Languages | By: 66 | Introduction This paper discuses the results of the application of a methodology typical to information science to humanities computing. User studies are widely performed in the library and inform... | ||
8 | Computer-Aided Acquisition of Language Teaching Materials from Corpora | 3016 | Awareness of domain-tuned linguistic peculiarities present in expository texts is a relevant concept in helping students' reading and writing competency in terms of genre literacies. Support for this point of view comes from the analysis of academic written genres, competing demands for limited resources, the tyranny o... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Computer-Aided Acquisition of Language Teaching Materials from Corpora | By: 3016 | Awareness of domain-tuned linguistic peculiarities present in expository texts is a relevant concept in helping students' reading and writing competency in terms of genre literacies. Support for this point of view comes from the analysi... | ||
9 | Records to Go: Building the Humbul Humanities Hub | 2894 | The Humbul Humanities Hub is a service of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), receiving funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The RDN comprises a number of hubs each of which offers a range of services to a broad subject-based community within the UK. A number of the hubs have evolved from cent... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Records to Go: Building the Humbul Humanities Hub | By: 2894 | The Humbul Humanities Hub is a service of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), receiving funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The RDN comprises a number of hubs each of which offers a range of services to a broad subject-based commu... | ||
10 | LOOKSEE: Software Tools for Image-Based Humanities Computing | 76 | This poster will document LOOKSEE, a Web site and discussion list for image-based humanities computing <http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/> (first announced at the 1999 ACH/ALLC in Charlottesville). Its primary focus is not imaging and image acquisition - areas with well-established technical literatures - but rather... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | LOOKSEE: Software Tools for Image-Based Humanities Computing | By: 76 | This poster will document LOOKSEE, a Web site and discussion list for image-based humanities computing <http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/> (first announced at the 1999 ACH/ALLC in Charlottesville). Its primary focus is not imaging and image acqu... | ||
11 | A Wake Newslitter - Electronic Edition | 3017 | The 'A Wake Newslitter - Electronic edition' reproduces in a hyperlinked and searchable format the complete print run of the seminal journal on Joyce's Finnegans Wake which started out as a mimeographed news-sheet passed between a few scholars in the early nineteen-sixties. Large areas of the scholarship contained in t... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | A Wake Newslitter - Electronic Edition | By: 3017 | The 'A Wake Newslitter - Electronic edition' reproduces in a hyperlinked and searchable format the complete print run of the seminal journal on Joyce's Finnegans Wake which started out as a mimeographed news-sheet passed between a few scholars in the early nineteen-si... | ||
12 | Modeling the Crystal Palace | 2850; 3018; 3019; 3020 | Introduction The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia is providing historians, architects and students new insights into the history, construction and appearance of the Crystal Palace. These insights are derived from the construction of 3-dimensional computer models and simu... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Modeling the Crystal Palace | By: 2850; 3018; 3019; 3020 | Introduction The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia is providing historians, architects and students new insights into the history, construction and appearance of the Crystal Palace. These insights are derived from... | ||
13 | Solutions for the Delivery of Thematically-Tagged Text | 1777; 3021; 7244 | Introduction The Orlando Project has developed prototype delivery software which gives end users access to our literary history textbase. Richly-tagged SGML data is automatically converted to XML, and presented to users through a custom application (which runs locally on their machine, and communicates with a back-end ... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Solutions for the Delivery of Thematically-Tagged Text | By: 1777; 3021; 7244 | Introduction The Orlando Project has developed prototype delivery software which gives end users access to our literary history textbase. Richly-tagged SGML data is automatically converted to XML, and presented to users through a custom app... | ||
14 | Meaning and Interpretation of Markup | 8013; 1128; 6807 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?oxygen RNGSchema="file:/remote/homed/saschmid/Desktop/teiConferenceAbstracts.rng" type="xml"?> <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="paper"> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title level="a" type="main">Meaning and Interpretation of Markup</title> <author>Markup is in... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Meaning and Interpretation of Markup | By: 8013; 1128; 6807 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?oxygen RNGSchema="file:/remote/homed/saschmid/Desktop/teiConferenceAbstracts.rng" type="xml"?> <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="paper"> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title level="a" type="main">Mea... | ||
15 | A Formal Model for Lexical Information | 6773; 3024; 64 | 1. Introduction The structure and content of lexical information has been explored in considerable depth in the past, primarily in order to determine a common model that can serve as a basis for encoding schemas and/or database models. For the most part, descriptions of lexical structure have been informed by the forma... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | A Formal Model for Lexical Information | By: 6773; 3024; 64 | 1. Introduction The structure and content of lexical information has been explored in considerable depth in the past, primarily in order to determine a common model that can serve as a basis for encoding schemas and/or database models. For the most part, des... | ||
16 | Teaching Cybertext Writing, Design, and Editing: Language, Image, Linking, Thinking | 3025 | Ira Shor, in Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, proposes a student-centered pedagogy which theorizes that everyone immersed in mass culture is "habituated to a dizzying pace of life." (63) Describing the factors today's teachers face, Shor writes about the "addicting standard of stimulation" set by radio, television ... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Teaching Cybertext Writing, Design, and Editing: Language, Image, Linking, Thinking | By: 3025 | Ira Shor, in Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, proposes a student-centered pedagogy which theorizes that everyone immersed in mass culture is "habituated to a dizzying pace of life." (63) Describing the factors today's t... | ||
17 | A Toolbox for the Electronic Classroom | 1920; 1921 | Writing about the new economy, Jeff Madrick remarks that the kinds of good jobs increasing most rapidly "require communication skills, social ease, and basic reasoning abilities ..." Acquiring such skills, he believes, "may only be possible through higher education, where students are exposed to a sophisticated culture... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | A Toolbox for the Electronic Classroom | By: 1920; 1921 | Writing about the new economy, Jeff Madrick remarks that the kinds of good jobs increasing most rapidly "require communication skills, social ease, and basic reasoning abilities ..." Acquiring such skills, he believes, "may only be possible through higher educat... | ||
18 | Ekphrasis and the Internet: Connecting the Verbal and the Visual with Computer-mediated Student Projects in an Undergraduate Humanities Class | 3026; 3027 | In her exploration of ekphrasis, the relationship between visual and verbal arts, Amy Golahny reminds us that references to the interconnectedness of the language of pictures and words date at least from the fifth century B.C. when Simonides said, "as in painting, so in poetry". In the first century B.C., Golanhy adds,... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Ekphrasis and the Internet: Connecting the Verbal and the Visual with Computer-mediated Student Projects in an Undergraduate Humanities Class | By: 3026; 3027 | In her exploration of ekphrasis, the relationship between visual and verbal arts, Amy Golahny reminds us that references to the interconnectedness of the langu... | ||
19 | SMART Project: Methods for Computer-based Research of Premodern Chinese Texts | 777 | This presentation will start with a look at some of the problems encountered so far in a number of projects that tried to apply TEI [TEIP3] markup to premodern Chinese Buddhist texts. I have been working with the TEI Guidelines for more than seven years and published the first text, rather heavily marked up in TEI fash... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | SMART Project: Methods for Computer-based Research of Premodern Chinese Texts | By: 777 | This presentation will start with a look at some of the problems encountered so far in a number of projects that tried to apply TEI [TEIP3] markup to premodern Chinese Buddhist texts. I have been working with the TEI Guidelines fo... | ||
20 | Word Order in Latin Prose Applied to a Case of Authorship Attribution: Book IV of the Stratagemata by Sextus Iulius Frontinus (1st century AD). The Contribution of Quantitative Methods via Computerized Text Analysis | 3028; 3029 | Background For some time, the Servei de Lexicometria at the University of Barcelona has been working in conjunction with the Latin Linguistics Group (Catalan acronym GLLUB) of the same university on the promotion and application of quantitative methods and computerized analysis of texts in the field of corpus languages... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Word Order in Latin Prose Applied to a Case of Authorship Attribution: Book IV of the Stratagemata by Sextus Iulius Frontinus (1st century AD). The Contribution of Quantitative Methods via Computerized Text Analysis | By: 3028; 3029 | Background For some time, the Servei de Lexicometria at the University of Barcelona h... | ||
21 | Back to the Cave of Shadows: Stylistic Fingerprints in Authorship Attribution | 1977; 1936; 3030; 3031; 3032 | Introduction Attempts to assign authorship of texts have a long history. They have been applied to influential texts such as the Bible, the works of Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers. A wide variety of techniques from many disciplines have been considered, from multivariate statistical analysis to neural networks a... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Back to the Cave of Shadows: Stylistic Fingerprints in Authorship Attribution | By: 1977; 1936; 3030; 3031; 3032 | Introduction Attempts to assign authorship of texts have a long history. They have been applied to influential texts such as the Bible, the works of Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers. A wide variety of... | ||
22 | The Digital Performance Archive | 3033 | While digital performance events and experiments proliferate and new performance genres are beginning to emerge, no central record or archive of these developments is currently being collated. The Digital Performance Archive (DPA) aims to fill that gap by archiving and critically analysing significant new interdiscipli... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | The Digital Performance Archive | By: 3033 | While digital performance events and experiments proliferate and new performance genres are beginning to emerge, no central record or archive of these developments is currently being collated. The Digital Performance Archive (DPA) aims to fill that gap by archiving and criti... | ||
23 | An Assistant Tool for Verse-making in Basque-based on Two-Level Morphology | 3034; 3035; 3036 | Introduction In this paper we present a specialised word generator, which aims to be an assistant tool for Basque troubadours. Such a tool allows verse-writers to generate all the words that match with a given word termination. We coped with some interesting aspects, i.e. the dimensions of the generated list and the ne... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | An Assistant Tool for Verse-making in Basque-based on Two-Level Morphology | By: 3034; 3035; 3036 | Introduction In this paper we present a specialised word generator, which aims to be an assistant tool for Basque troubadours. Such a tool allows verse-writers to generate all the words that match with a given word termi... | ||
24 | The Second Version of the ICAME CD-ROM | 3037 | The demo will present the second edition of the ICAME CD-ROM. The CD contains 20 corpora, written, spoken and historical texts, with approximately 17 millions words. The CD-ROM comes with a full version of WordSmith and TACT and the retrieval component of WordCruncher (for DOS). Most of the material is indexed with Wor... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | The Second Version of the ICAME CD-ROM | By: 3037 | The demo will present the second edition of the ICAME CD-ROM. The CD contains 20 corpora, written, spoken and historical texts, with approximately 17 millions words. The CD-ROM comes with a full version of WordSmith and TACT and the retrieval component of WordCruncher... | ||
25 | Working with Alignment of Text and Sound in Spoken Corpora | 3037 | The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) has been transcribed and the cassette tapes have been digitized to Windows WAV-files (9 GB). The texts have been time aligned at the word level with the sound files by the company Softsound in the UK. The poster will describe how this material is made available throug... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Working with Alignment of Text and Sound in Spoken Corpora | By: 3037 | The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) has been transcribed and the cassette tapes have been digitized to Windows WAV-files (9 GB). The texts have been time aligned at the word level with the sound files by the company Softsound in the... | ||
26 | Text Structure vs. Encoded Structure - Dealing with Mixed Genres and Ambiguous Texts | 3038; 3000; 3039; 3001; 3040 | Introduction: 'Henrik Ibsen's Writings' aims at producing and publishing both an electronic version and a book version of all Ibsen's writings: dramas, poems, drafts, letters, articles, notes. All manuscripts and editions in Norwegian/Danish from the playwright's lifetime will be encoded using SGML/TEI. Our encoding is... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Text Structure vs. Encoded Structure - Dealing with Mixed Genres and Ambiguous Texts | By: 3038; 3000; 3039; 3001; 3040 | Introduction: 'Henrik Ibsen's Writings' aims at producing and publishing both an electronic version and a book version of all Ibsen's writings: dramas, poems, drafts, letters, articles, notes. All m... | ||
27 | Perdita's Progress: Raising Standards in a TEI-based Approach to Cataloguing Early Modern Manuscripts | 3041; 66; 3042 | The Perdita Project was established in 1997 at the Nottingham Trent University, by Elizabeth Clarke and Victoria Burke of the English & Media Studies department, with Martyn Bennett of the History department, funded initially by the Nottingham Trent University. A substantial AHRB grant in 1999 meant that we could appoi... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Perdita's Progress: Raising Standards in a TEI-based Approach to Cataloguing Early Modern Manuscripts | By: 3041; 66; 3042 | The Perdita Project was established in 1997 at the Nottingham Trent University, by Elizabeth Clarke and Victoria Burke of the English & Media Studies department, with Martyn Bennett of the Histor... | ||
28 | Image Description at the William Blake Archive | 1096 | The larger objective of this paper is to follow the lead of Matthew Kirschenbaum and the participants in his panel at last year's ALLC/ACH conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, in thinking about visual electronic resources as structured data. More specifically, I propose to turn the spotlight on a significant portio... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Image Description at the William Blake Archive | By: 1096 | The larger objective of this paper is to follow the lead of Matthew Kirschenbaum and the participants in his panel at last year's ALLC/ACH conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, in thinking about visual electronic resources as structured data. More specifica... | ||
29 | Kirrkirr: Software for Browsing and Visual Exploration of a Structured Warlpiri Dictionary | 1048 | This paper discusses the goals, architecture, and usability of Kirrkirr, a Java-based visualization tool for XML dictionaries, currently being used with a dictionary for Warlpiri, an Australian Aboriginal language. While dictionaries on computers are now common, there has been surprisingly little work on innovative way... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Kirrkirr: Software for Browsing and Visual Exploration of a Structured Warlpiri Dictionary | By: 1048 | This paper discusses the goals, architecture, and usability of Kirrkirr, a Java-based visualization tool for XML dictionaries, currently being used with a dictionary for Warlpiri, an Australian Aboriginal language. W... | ||
30 | New Paths in Middle High German Lexicography: Dictionaries Interlinked Electronically | 3043 | I. Topic: Since September 1997, a small team of lexicographers and computer scientists at the University of Trier (Germany) have been developing an integrated electronic dictionary of Middle High German applying TEI Guidelines. The resulting integrated digital dictionary is expected to be finished by August 2000 and be... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | New Paths in Middle High German Lexicography: Dictionaries Interlinked Electronically | By: 3043 | I. Topic: Since September 1997, a small team of lexicographers and computer scientists at the University of Trier (Germany) have been developing an integrated electronic dictionary of Middle High German applying TEI Guide... | ||
31 | Stephen Crane and the 'New-York Tribune': a Case Study in Traditional and Non-traditional Authorship Attribution | 1216; 3044 | Introduction This paper presents seventeen previously unknown articles that we believe to be by Stephen Crane, published in the 'New-York Tribune' between 1889 and 1892. The articles, printed without byline in what was at the time New York City's most prestigious newspaper, report on activities in a string of summer re... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Stephen Crane and the 'New-York Tribune': a Case Study in Traditional and Non-traditional Authorship Attribution | By: 1216; 3044 | Introduction This paper presents seventeen previously unknown articles that we believe to be by Stephen Crane, published in the 'New-York Tribune' between 1889 and 1892. The articles, prin... | ||
32 | Making MITH a Reality: The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Year Two | 1443; 3047; 3046; 3045; 2935; 838 | Making MITH a Reality: The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Year Two http://www.mith.umd.edu key words for session: digital libraries, feminism and writing technologies, film editing, intercultural learning center Participants: Dr. Martha Nell Smith, MITH Director; Dr. Charles Lowry, Dean of Librari... | 2000 | panel / roundtable | Glasgow | Making MITH a Reality: The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Year Two | By: 1443; 3047; 3046; 3045; 2935; 838 | Making MITH a Reality: The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Year Two http://www.mith.umd.edu key words for session: digital libraries, feminism and writing technologies,... | ||
33 | EDINA: Edinburgh Data and Information Access | 3048 | EDINA, based at Edinburgh University Data Library, is a JISC-funded national datacentre. It offers the UK tertiary education and research community networked access to a library of data, information and research resources. As a JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) national datacentre, EDINA is part of the Distrib... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | EDINA: Edinburgh Data and Information Access | By: 3048 | EDINA, based at Edinburgh University Data Library, is a JISC-funded national datacentre. It offers the UK tertiary education and research community networked access to a library of data, information and research resources. As a JISC (Joint Information Systems Co... | ||
34 | A Prolog System for the Automatic Generation of Bilingual Dictionaries | 3049 | Introduction There are a number of systems available which are capable of producing concordances from parallel corpora (see Berber Sardinha 1996; Bonhomme & Romary 1997; St. John & Chattle 1998). Text alignment is usually carried out at either the rank of sentence or the rank of paragraph. As a result, concordances do ... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | A Prolog System for the Automatic Generation of Bilingual Dictionaries | By: 3049 | Introduction There are a number of systems available which are capable of producing concordances from parallel corpora (see Berber Sardinha 1996; Bonhomme & Romary 1997; St. John & Chattle 1998). Text alignment is usually carried out at... | ||
35 | Humanities Computing and Campus Computer/Information literacy | 490 | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Humanities Computing and Campus Computer/Information literacy | By: 490 | |||
36 | John Venn and the Alumni Cantabrigienses - an example of applied natural language processing techniques in enhancing the utility of a historical database | 3050 | The poster provides a general summary of my thesis. This can be broadly divided into three interrelated areas: 1. the historical background to this biographical dictionary. 2. This is of great significance to the project since it provides added understanding to what is shown to be a unique source structure. 3. Automati... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | John Venn and the Alumni Cantabrigienses - an example of applied natural language processing techniques in enhancing the utility of a historical database | By: 3050 | The poster provides a general summary of my thesis. This can be broadly divided into three interrelated areas: 1. the historical background to this biogr... | ||
37 | The "Biblioteca Italiana Telematica" Project (http://cibit.unipi.it): a Progress Report | 1930; 3051 | The Biblioteca Italiana Telematica (Italian Library Online) is a digital library of representative texts of the Italian cultural tradition from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century (literature, language, history, philosophy, art, music and cultural history in its general sense). The library aims to be a major research a... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | The "Biblioteca Italiana Telematica" Project (http://cibit.unipi.it): a Progress Report | By: 1930; 3051 | The Biblioteca Italiana Telematica (Italian Library Online) is a digital library of representative texts of the Italian cultural tradition from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century (literature, language, history, p... | ||
38 | Poetic Prosthetic | 1999; 2867 | 1. Introduction One of Chomsky's early distinctions separated 'rule-governed creativity' and 'rule-changing creativity'. In the first, applications of a rule within a formal system produce new output, while in the second, some mechanism is used to change the set of rules themselves. While the overall concept of languag... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Poetic Prosthetic | By: 1999; 2867 | 1. Introduction One of Chomsky's early distinctions separated 'rule-governed creativity' and 'rule-changing creativity'. In the first, applications of a rule within a formal system produce new output, while in the second, some mechanism is used to change the set of rules themselves.... | ||
39 | An American National Corpus: a Large Balanced Text Corpus for American English | 3053; 6773 | Introduction: The importance of corpora as resources has become more and more accepted over the years. Many types of corpora have been used for various different purposes but if one is searching for examples of "general" application and not restricting oneself to a particular sub-language, the development of a balanced... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | An American National Corpus: a Large Balanced Text Corpus for American English | By: 3053; 6773 | Introduction: The importance of corpora as resources has become more and more accepted over the years. Many types of corpora have been used for various different purposes but if one is searching for examples of "general" a... | ||
40 | Electric Theory (Truth, Use, and Method) | 3052 | First Wave critics of the electronic environment - especially those critics who discuss hypertext in the late '80s and early '90s - make an interesting discovery about theory and computing: electronic literacy confirms post/structural theories of reading and writing. Given a computer environment, theory finds that its ... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Electric Theory (Truth, Use, and Method) | By: 3052 | First Wave critics of the electronic environment - especially those critics who discuss hypertext in the late '80s and early '90s - make an interesting discovery about theory and computing: electronic literacy confirms post/structural theories of reading and writing... | ||
41 | French Neo-Structuralist Schools and Industrial Text Analysis | 3054 | Parallel to, and to some degree in reaction to French post-structuralist theorization (as championed by Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan, among others) is a French "neo" structuralism built directly on the achievements of structuralism using electronic means. We will begin this talk by examining some exemplary approaches t... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | French Neo-Structuralist Schools and Industrial Text Analysis | By: 3054 | Parallel to, and to some degree in reaction to French post-structuralist theorization (as championed by Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan, among others) is a French "neo" structuralism built directly on the achievements of structuralism using electro... | ||
42 | A Theory for Literature (Created for the World Wide Web, E-Mail, Chat Spaces, Databases, and Other Electronic Technologies) | 270 | Beginning with Michael Joyce's seminal hypertext, 'afternoon, a story', and moving to the recent webtext by Kathleen Yancey and Michael Spooner, 'Not (Necessarily) a Cosmic Convergence', Dene Grigar provides examples of the new literary writing generated by electronic non-print technologies, such as World Wide Web, MOO... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | A Theory for Literature (Created for the World Wide Web, E-Mail, Chat Spaces, Databases, and Other Electronic Technologies) | By: 270 | Beginning with Michael Joyce's seminal hypertext, 'afternoon, a story', and moving to the recent webtext by Kathleen Yancey and Michael Spooner, 'Not (Necessarily) a Cosmic Convergence... | ||
43 | Computer-Mediated Discourse, Reception Theory, and Versioning | 53 | This paper will address how computer-mediated discourse provides new opportunities and challenges in two areas of literary criticism, Reception Theory and Versioning. Although extremely different critical modes, they can be viewed as belonging to opposite ends of the space-time continuum, with Versioning taking advanta... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Computer-Mediated Discourse, Reception Theory, and Versioning | By: 53 | This paper will address how computer-mediated discourse provides new opportunities and challenges in two areas of literary criticism, Reception Theory and Versioning. Although extremely different critical modes, they can be viewed as belonging to ... | ||
44 | The FALMER Project: Toward an Electronic Critical Edition | 1637 | What will be the critical editions in the electronic era? Hubert de Phalèse, a research center in La Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris III), in accordance with its pragmatic approach to literary computing problems, decided to launch this debate by putting on line a critical edition of the complete works of Lautréamon... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | The FALMER Project: Toward an Electronic Critical Edition | By: 1637 | What will be the critical editions in the electronic era? Hubert de Phalèse, a research center in La Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris III), in accordance with its pragmatic approach to literary computing problems, decided to launch this debate by... | ||
45 | The Miguel Cervantes Digital Library: The Hispanic Voice on the WEB | 3055 | This paper describes the philosophy behind what represents one of the most ambitious projects of its kind ever to have been undertaken in the Spanish-speaking world: The Miguel Cervantes Digital Library (http://cervantesvirtual.com/). It explains the reasons behind its creation, the private-public sector alliance which... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | The Miguel Cervantes Digital Library: The Hispanic Voice on the WEB | By: 3055 | This paper describes the philosophy behind what represents one of the most ambitious projects of its kind ever to have been undertaken in the Spanish-speaking world: The Miguel Cervantes Digital Library (http://cervantesvirtual.com/). It e... | ||
46 | Textual Variation, Electronic Editions and Hypertext | 1496 | The advent of the electronic paradigm to the field of scholarly editing and textual criticism opens up new possibilities for both the production process and the delivery of products which may herald a new era in scholarly editing. A new practice including text encoding, automated tagging, automatic collation, the use o... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Textual Variation, Electronic Editions and Hypertext | By: 1496 | The advent of the electronic paradigm to the field of scholarly editing and textual criticism opens up new possibilities for both the production process and the delivery of products which may herald a new era in scholarly editing. A new practice includin... | ||
47 | Computing in the School of English and Scottish Language And Literature (SESLL) at the University of Glasgow | 1050 | The STELLA project (Software for Teaching English and Scottish Language and Literature) has served the School of English and Scottish Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow since 1987. We have produced teaching packages and brought research databases into use in teaching. All our programs have been thorou... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Computing in the School of English and Scottish Language And Literature (SESLL) at the University of Glasgow | By: 1050 | The STELLA project (Software for Teaching English and Scottish Language and Literature) has served the School of English and Scottish Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow since 1987.... | ||
48 | Experience and Expertise: The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow | 2212 | The mission of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) is to encourage actively the use of information technology and information to improve research and teaching in the arts and the humanities. The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute builds on over 15 years experience ... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Experience and Expertise: The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow | By: 2212 | The mission of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) is to encourage actively the use of information technology and information to improve research and teaching in th... | ||
49 | A Case Study of an Evaluation Questionnaire Concerning the Integration of a Hypermedia Project in University Courses | 1261; 1260 | Summary The presentation will develop the results of a questionnaire survey following the introduction of hypermedia products in cultural history and humanities computing courses. This experiment concerns the use of a hypermedia CD-ROM on Georgian Cities (developed by the Research Centre 'Cultures Anglophones et Techno... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | A Case Study of an Evaluation Questionnaire Concerning the Integration of a Hypermedia Project in University Courses | By: 1261; 1260 | Summary The presentation will develop the results of a questionnaire survey following the introduction of hypermedia products in cultural history and humanities computing courses. This... | ||
50 | Collaborative Campus: Rhetoric, Technology and Classroom Re-Composition | 2911; 1910; 3057; 1906; 3058; 7874 | Our group proposes to demonstrate the technologies, methodologies, and assessment criteria used to develop a University System of Georgia grant-funded, multi-campus distance education project. The project, initiated in September 1999, links faculty and students on three campuses in a collaborative first year writing co... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Collaborative Campus: Rhetoric, Technology and Classroom Re-Composition | By: 2911; 1910; 3057; 1906; 3058; 7874 | Our group proposes to demonstrate the technologies, methodologies, and assessment criteria used to develop a University System of Georgia grant-funded, multi-campus distance education project. The project,... | ||
51 | Machine Learning Support for Evaluation and Quality Control | 3031 | Annotated material which is to be evaluated and possibly upgraded is used as training and test data for a machine learning system. The portion of the material for which the output of the machine learning system disagrees with the human annotation is then examined in detail. This portion is shown to contain a higher per... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Machine Learning Support for Evaluation and Quality Control | By: 3031 | Annotated material which is to be evaluated and possibly upgraded is used as training and test data for a machine learning system. The portion of the material for which the output of the machine learning system disagrees with the human annotation ... | ||
52 | A Corpus-Based Methodology for Identifying Non-nominal "It": Rule-Based and Machine Learning Approaches | 1847 | In this paper, seven uses of "it" are identified in English. These uses involve noun phrase anaphora (eg. "Do not sweep the dust when dry, you will only recirculate IT."), verb phrase anaphora (eg. "Raising money for your favourite charity can be fun. You can do IT on your own..."), reference to clauses (eg. "Not every... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | A Corpus-Based Methodology for Identifying Non-nominal "It": Rule-Based and Machine Learning Approaches | By: 1847 | In this paper, seven uses of "it" are identified in English. These uses involve noun phrase anaphora (eg. "Do not sweep the dust when dry, you will only recirculate IT."), verb phrase anaphora (eg. "Rais... | ||
53 | Binomials and the Computer: a Study in Corpus-Based Phraseology | 3059 | This paper presents the results of a large-scale corpus-based study (Hatzidaki 1999) of an important feature of English phraseology, namely binomial pairs (e.g. chalk and cheese, up and down, prim and proper, through and through, Laurel and Hardy). The purpose of the research was two-fold, firstly, to conduct, on the b... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Binomials and the Computer: a Study in Corpus-Based Phraseology | By: 3059 | This paper presents the results of a large-scale corpus-based study (Hatzidaki 1999) of an important feature of English phraseology, namely binomial pairs (e.g. chalk and cheese, up and down, prim and proper, through and through, Laurel and Ha... | ||
54 | ACAD - a Cambridge Alumni Database | 3060 | 1. Introduction From 1922-27 Venn published the four volumes of Part I of Alumni Cantabrigienses, a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1751. This was followed from 1940-54 by the six volumes of Part II, covering 1752-1900. ... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | ACAD - a Cambridge Alumni Database | By: 3060 | 1. Introduction From 1922-27 Venn published the four volumes of Part I of Alumni Cantabrigienses, a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1751. This was followed from 1940-54 by ... | ||
55 | New Models for Electronic Publishing | 3061 | Roger Chartier rightly warns us that reading on a computer screen is not the same as reading a book when he says that "electronic representation of texts completely changes the text's status: for the materiality of the book, it substitutes the immateriality of texts without a unique location [...] in place of the immed... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | New Models for Electronic Publishing | By: 3061 | Roger Chartier rightly warns us that reading on a computer screen is not the same as reading a book when he says that "electronic representation of texts completely changes the text's status: for the materiality of the book, it substitutes the immateriality of texts wit... | ||
56 | Academic Collaboration On Line: The SOL as a Case Study | 3062; 3063; 3064; 1428; 2006 | Despite the Herculean labors and remarkable achievements of the Perseus Project, today many essential resources for the study of the ancient Mediterranean world still remain accessible only to a few specially trained researchers because they have never been translated into modern languages or provided with sufficiently... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Academic Collaboration On Line: The SOL as a Case Study | By: 3062; 3063; 3064; 1428; 2006 | Despite the Herculean labors and remarkable achievements of the Perseus Project, today many essential resources for the study of the ancient Mediterranean world still remain accessible only to a few specially trained researcher... | ||
57 | Dating Dickinson: an Experimental Approach to Stylochronometry | 1953; 3065 | Stylometry is the statistical analysis of literary style, whose two primary applications are authorship attribution and chronological problems. It originated in 1851 when Augustus de Morgan suggested that it is possible to settle authorship by determining if one text "does not deal in longer words" than another (Holmes... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Dating Dickinson: an Experimental Approach to Stylochronometry | By: 1953; 3065 | Stylometry is the statistical analysis of literary style, whose two primary applications are authorship attribution and chronological problems. It originated in 1851 when Augustus de Morgan suggested that it is possible to settle authorsh... | ||
58 | A Comparison of Methods for the Attribution of Authorship of Popular Fiction | 1936; 231 | Introduction In this poster we present the stylistic analysis of a number of popular fiction genres. Popular fiction generally receives less academic attention than literature, but its ability to draw the reader into the story is noteworthy. In previous work (Opas and Tweedie, 1999a, 1999b) we have examined measures of... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | A Comparison of Methods for the Attribution of Authorship of Popular Fiction | By: 1936; 231 | Introduction In this poster we present the stylistic analysis of a number of popular fiction genres. Popular fiction generally receives less academic attention than literature, but its ability to draw the reader into the stor... | ||
59 | Computational Methods for the Study of Multilingual Corpora | 3066 | Corpus linguistics is becoming increasingly important for translation studies (cf. Baker, 1995; Granger, 1999). In the past, the application of corpus linguistic methods was limited to the applied branch of this discipline. In particular, they were used in the fields of terminology, translation aids (e.g., to develop t... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Computational Methods for the Study of Multilingual Corpora | By: 3066 | Corpus linguistics is becoming increasingly important for translation studies (cf. Baker, 1995; Granger, 1999). In the past, the application of corpus linguistic methods was limited to the applied branch of this discipline. In particular, they wer... | ||
60 | A System for Dynamic Text Corpus Management (with an Example Corpus of the Russian Mass Media of the 1990s) | 7867; 3067; 3068 | We present a system for text corpus processing which is oriented to the idea of a "dynamic text corpus". With its help a user can search for examples of usage (words, phrases, and even morphemes), build word lists and concordances, compile his own subcorpus. The software was used while compiling a text corpus on modern... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | A System for Dynamic Text Corpus Management (with an Example Corpus of the Russian Mass Media of the 1990s) | By: 7867; 3067; 3068 | We present a system for text corpus processing which is oriented to the idea of a "dynamic text corpus". With its help a user can search for examples of usage (words, phrases, and even mo... | ||
61 | XSL - Characteristics, Status, and Potentials for Text Processing Applications in the Humanities | 424 | What XSL Is The Extensible Style Language (XSL) is a specification currently being finalized (May 2000) by the W3 Consortium, the vendor consortium that proposes recommendations for web standards including HTML, CSS and now XML and its related technologies. XSL's immediate purpose is to support various kinds of present... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | XSL - Characteristics, Status, and Potentials for Text Processing Applications in the Humanities | By: 424 | What XSL Is The Extensible Style Language (XSL) is a specification currently being finalized (May 2000) by the W3 Consortium, the vendor consortium that proposes recommendations for web standards including HTML,... | ||
62 | Metainformation Strategies for Electronic Resources | 53 | This paper will address the theoretical and practical issues in devising and implementing a project-specific metainformation scheme for electronic resources. While one can argue that a scheme like the Text Encoding Initiative provides for encoding which greatly enhances plain text retrieval, in practice without extensi... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Metainformation Strategies for Electronic Resources | By: 53 | This paper will address the theoretical and practical issues in devising and implementing a project-specific metainformation scheme for electronic resources. While one can argue that a scheme like the Text Encoding Initiative provides for encoding which gre... | ||
63 | On Mock-scholarly, Faux-casual, and Cod Philosophy: Patterns of Diachronic Change in a British Newspaper | 1977; 3069 | Introduction In British newspapers, various 'vogue' prefix-like forms regularly appear (Renouf & Baayen, 1998; see also Baayen & Renouf, 1996, for standard affixation). This study considers three such forms: MOCK, COD, and FAUX. These forms are primarily used to modify nouns, as in (1) he explodes in mock-outrage chain... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | On Mock-scholarly, Faux-casual, and Cod Philosophy: Patterns of Diachronic Change in a British Newspaper | By: 1977; 3069 | Introduction In British newspapers, various 'vogue' prefix-like forms regularly appear (Renouf & Baayen, 1998; see also Baayen & Renouf, 1996, for standard affixation). This study considers three ... | ||
64 | Primroses and Power: a Study on Linguistic Excellence in Political Discourse | 3070; 3071; 3072; 3073 | The aim of this paper is to focus on a linguistic corpus in order to detect, by statistical methods and computational tools, either correspondences or contrasts between the hypotheses made by the linguist and the applied procedures made by the software experts. The corpus is selected from nineteenth century Victorian s... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Primroses and Power: a Study on Linguistic Excellence in Political Discourse | By: 3070; 3071; 3072; 3073 | The aim of this paper is to focus on a linguistic corpus in order to detect, by statistical methods and computational tools, either correspondences or contrasts between the hypotheses made by the linguist and the... | ||
65 | The Statistical Analysis of Style: How Language Means in Beckett | 3074 | This paper will analyse narrative style in selected fiction of Beckett (French and English versions). It will use computational stylistics for a formalist discrimination of patterns of language in the texts and will thus begin with a descriptive base. Previous published work by Burrows, Love, Craig, Holmes, Forsyth, Tw... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | The Statistical Analysis of Style: How Language Means in Beckett | By: 3074 | This paper will analyse narrative style in selected fiction of Beckett (French and English versions). It will use computational stylistics for a formalist discrimination of patterns of language in the texts and will thus begin with a descript... | ||
66 | Border Crossing: Engineers, Papyrologists, and the Graphical Use Interface | 5 | The discovery of the writing and stylus tablets from Vindolanda, a Roman Fort built in the late 80s AD near Hadrian's Wall at modern day Chesterholm, has provided a unique resource regarding the Roman occupation of northern Britain and the use and development of Latin around the turn of the first century AD. However, a... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Border Crossing: Engineers, Papyrologists, and the Graphical Use Interface | By: 5 | The discovery of the writing and stylus tablets from Vindolanda, a Roman Fort built in the late 80s AD near Hadrian's Wall at modern day Chesterholm, has provided a unique resource regarding the Roman occupation of northern Britain and... | ||
67 | Trajan's Column: Building a WWW Image-Database | 3; 3075; 3076; 3077; 3078 | One of the challenges when designing image databases in the humanities is to provide interfaces that are drawn from the object being represented rather than from the technology used. In this paper we will discuss an image database of over 400 images that was built by a team of graduate students and faculty at McMaster ... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Trajan's Column: Building a WWW Image-Database | By: 3; 3075; 3076; 3077; 3078 | One of the challenges when designing image databases in the humanities is to provide interfaces that are drawn from the object being represented rather than from the technology used. In this paper we will discuss an image database of over ... | ||
68 | Digital Images for Online Distance Education in the Humanities | 3079; 3080; 3081 | This paper will describe the design and development of a web-based distance education course in Art History at the University of Glasgow. In planning such courses the interplay between new media, distance education and the existing systems in a campus-based institution raises numerous issues which need to be resolved b... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Digital Images for Online Distance Education in the Humanities | By: 3079; 3080; 3081 | This paper will describe the design and development of a web-based distance education course in Art History at the University of Glasgow. In planning such courses the interplay between new media, distance education and the existing ... | ||
69 | Books into Bytes: The "Deutsches Wörterbuch" on CD-ROM and on the Internet | 2910 | I. Starting position, targets: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's "Deutsches Woerterbuch" (DWB) comprises the most extensive documentation of the German language. Its outstanding position is confirmed by its history: for more than one hundred years - the longest period of publication for a German dictionary - generations of lex... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Books into Bytes: The "Deutsches Wörterbuch" on CD-ROM and on the Internet | By: 2910 | I. Starting position, targets: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's "Deutsches Woerterbuch" (DWB) comprises the most extensive documentation of the German language. Its outstanding position is confirmed by its history: for more than one hundre... | ||
70 | Construction of Russian Corpus-Driven Dictionary Based and Monitor Corpora | 3082 | 1. Introduction Monitor corpora are of interest to lexicographers and language learners who can trawl a stream of new texts looking for the occurrence of new words, or for changing meanings of old words (Collins COBUILD, 1995; McEnery T., Wilson A., 1996). Their main advantages are that they are not static and provide ... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Construction of Russian Corpus-Driven Dictionary Based and Monitor Corpora | By: 3082 | 1. Introduction Monitor corpora are of interest to lexicographers and language learners who can trawl a stream of new texts looking for the occurrence of new words, or for changing meanings of old words (Collins COBUILD, 1995; McEne... | ||
71 | The MATE Workbench - a Tool for XML Corpus Annotation | 3083; 3084; 3085; 3086 | The MATE workbench is an annotation tool which allows transcription, annotation, display and querying of speech and text corpora. It is not tied to any particular annotation scheme, and allows users to define interfaces which suit their particular needs. The main difference between the MATE workbench and other annotati... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | The MATE Workbench - a Tool for XML Corpus Annotation | By: 3083; 3084; 3085; 3086 | The MATE workbench is an annotation tool which allows transcription, annotation, display and querying of speech and text corpora. It is not tied to any particular annotation scheme, and allows users to define interfaces which suit thei... | ||
72 | Austrian Academy Corpus - Doing literary markup by means of XML | 11161; 300 | The poster we intend to present is supposed to give some details concerning the pilot phase of the newly founded Austrian Academy Corpus (AAC). The AAC is a project which has been started with the perspective of building up a digital corpus tailored to the particular needs of scholars doing research in the field of lit... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Austrian Academy Corpus - Doing literary markup by means of XML | By: 11161; 300 | The poster we intend to present is supposed to give some details concerning the pilot phase of the newly founded Austrian Academy Corpus (AAC). The AAC is a project which has been started with the perspective of building up a digital cor... | ||
73 | The Humanities Computing Job Market | 6807; 3087; 141; 1114; 76; 424; 3 | The panelists will assess the current state of the humanities computing job market in both the academy (including faculty as well as other kinds of academic positions) and in industry. Topics will include the relationship between the job market and the ways in which humanities computing as a specialization or field is ... | 2000 | panel / roundtable | Glasgow | The Humanities Computing Job Market | By: 6807; 3087; 141; 1114; 76; 424; 3 | The panelists will assess the current state of the humanities computing job market in both the academy (including faculty as well as other kinds of academic positions) and in industry. Topics will include the relationship between the job mark... | ||
74 | Textbases and Databases: Integrating Library Catalogs with Digital Libraries | 1867 | Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) in libraries now include bibliographic records for WWW sites. In most or all cases, these records contain direct links to the web resources themselves, so that someone using a WWW-based catalog could go directly from a bibliographic description of a website to the website itself, j... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Textbases and Databases: Integrating Library Catalogs with Digital Libraries | By: 1867 | Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) in libraries now include bibliographic records for WWW sites. In most or all cases, these records contain direct links to the web resources themselves, so that someone using a WWW-based catalo... | ||
75 | Mapping 18th Century Structures of Knowledge: the Renvois System in Diderot's Encyclopédie | 3088; 1459 | One of the crowning achievements of the 18th century Enlightenment was the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres, edited by Diderot and d'Alembert. Published in Paris between 1751 and 1772, in 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates, it conta... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Mapping 18th Century Structures of Knowledge: the Renvois System in Diderot's Encyclopédie | By: 3088; 1459 | One of the crowning achievements of the 18th century Enlightenment was the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres, edited by Diderot and ... | ||
76 | Multi Dimensions Concept-Based Information Retrieval System | 3089 | Introduction Most of the problems in information retrieval systems occur from three sources: impreciseness of query and document representations, the changing state of mind in document relevant judgement, and the discrepancy of retrieval technique to match query and information need. The traditional approach to informa... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Multi Dimensions Concept-Based Information Retrieval System | By: 3089 | Introduction Most of the problems in information retrieval systems occur from three sources: impreciseness of query and document representations, the changing state of mind in document relevant judgement, and the discrepancy of retrieval technique... | ||
77 | Image Analysis as a Tool for Automating the Integration of Editorial Hypertext with Facsimile-based Digital Editions: the Experience of the Electronic Edition of Ruskin's Modern Painters I | 3090 | Introduction Since 1997, the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University have been exploring various technical options in order to create a facsimile-based edition of John Ruskin's Modern Painters vol I. Editorially, we were above all interested in showing the history of the writing process and the context of the many rev... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Image Analysis as a Tool for Automating the Integration of Editorial Hypertext with Facsimile-based Digital Editions: the Experience of the Electronic Edition of Ruskin's Modern Painters I | By: 3090 | Introduction Since 1997, the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University have been exploring various technical options in... | ||
78 | Automatical Text Aligning in a Parallel Text Corpus | 3068 | Parallel text corpora supply researchers with very important data for multilingual lexicography and translation studies as well as for language typology. The crucial problem in compiling parallel corpora is aligning the texts. Manual aligning is impossible for large corpora, so ways of automatic aligning are to be foun... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Automatical Text Aligning in a Parallel Text Corpus | By: 3068 | Parallel text corpora supply researchers with very important data for multilingual lexicography and translation studies as well as for language typology. The crucial problem in compiling parallel corpora is aligning the texts. Manual aligning is impossibl... | ||
79 | A Pilot Study in the Use of E-Books for Learning | 3091; 3092 | There are quite a number of educational electronic learning devices for children aged between 3 to 12 years old. These portable laptop look-alike devices are designed to make drill and practice exercises painless and more fun with elements of text, audio and animation. This paper describes a study on how children use a... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | A Pilot Study in the Use of E-Books for Learning | By: 3091; 3092 | There are quite a number of educational electronic learning devices for children aged between 3 to 12 years old. These portable laptop look-alike devices are designed to make drill and practice exercises painless and more fun with elements of text, aud... | ||
80 | Developing and Teaching with Computer-based Courseware in History: the History Courseware Consortium | 3093 | Summary This demonstration illustrates one model developed in the UK for developing, producing and disseminating web-based courseware to enhance the teaching and learning experience of history students in higher education. The demonstration covers the five key areas that the Consortium sought to address in overcoming t... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Developing and Teaching with Computer-based Courseware in History: the History Courseware Consortium | By: 3093 | Summary This demonstration illustrates one model developed in the UK for developing, producing and disseminating web-based courseware to enhance the teaching and learning experience of history students in h... | ||
81 | Griffith in Context: a Multimedia Exploration of The Birth of a Nation | 3058; 3094 | Summary: D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation has the distinction of being at once one of the most revered and most criticized films in cinema's history. This conflicted reputation stems from the film's combination of pioneering technical innovations and racial propaganda; the result was a visual epic of the Civi... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Griffith in Context: a Multimedia Exploration of The Birth of a Nation | By: 3058; 3094 | Summary: D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation has the distinction of being at once one of the most revered and most criticized films in cinema's history. This conflicted reputation stems from the film's combination of pionee... | ||
82 | Developing a User Interface for the Historical Thesaurus of English Ingres Database | 3095 | This is effectively a continuation of a paper published in Literary and Linguistic Computing Vol 7, 1992, which described the issues and processes involved in transferring the legacy database of the Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) in dBase 11.4 into Ingres 6.1, chosen as being able to support the retrieval of com... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Developing a User Interface for the Historical Thesaurus of English Ingres Database | By: 3095 | This is effectively a continuation of a paper published in Literary and Linguistic Computing Vol 7, 1992, which described the issues and processes involved in transferring the legacy database of the Historical Thesaurus of ... | ||
83 | The Electronic Scottish National Dictionary: Work in Progress | 3096 | The Scottish National Dictionary (SND) is the standard historical dictionary of modern Scots, covering the period from 1700 to the present. This presentation will describe the current project to digitise the SND to produce the eSND, which will eventually be output on the Internet. It will include a brief description of... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | The Electronic Scottish National Dictionary: Work in Progress | By: 3096 | The Scottish National Dictionary (SND) is the standard historical dictionary of modern Scots, covering the period from 1700 to the present. This presentation will describe the current project to digitise the SND to produce the eSND, which will e... | ||
84 | Early Dictionaries of English and Historical Corpora | 3097 | This paper discusses the implications for historical corpora of an examination of some early dictionaries of English. Comparison is made between Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) and works such as Thomas Blount's Glossographia (1656), Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum (1730), and Robert ... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Early Dictionaries of English and Historical Corpora | By: 3097 | This paper discusses the implications for historical corpora of an examination of some early dictionaries of English. Comparison is made between Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) and works such as Thomas Blount's Glossographia (1... | ||
85 | Supporting Digital Scholarship: a Project Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | 1430; 242; 1617; 1097 | Summary: To date, digital library efforts have focused on library-based production of digital primary resources. This project will, for the first time, address second-generation digital library problems, where the focus is on scholarly analysis, reprocessing, and the creation of digital primary resources. With $1m in s... | 2000 | panel / roundtable | Glasgow | Supporting Digital Scholarship: a Project Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | By: 1430; 242; 1617; 1097 | Summary: To date, digital library efforts have focused on library-based production of digital primary resources. This project will, for the first time, address second-generation digital library problems, wh... | ||
86 | The Role of the Scholarly Associations in Humanities Education | 1149; 920; 6832; 2143; 3098; 231; 6807; 1148 | The use of computer-based resources and techniques in higher education in the humanities disciplines is growing rapidly. Scholarly associations such as ALLC and ACH have played and continue to play a part in this, although the main imperatives are, of course, much more broadly based. This session aims to provide a foru... | 2000 | panel / roundtable | Glasgow | The Role of the Scholarly Associations in Humanities Education | By: 1149; 920; 6832; 2143; 3098; 231; 6807; 1148 | The use of computer-based resources and techniques in higher education in the humanities disciplines is growing rapidly. Scholarly associations such as ALLC and ACH have played and continue to play a part... | ||
87 | New Tools for Learners | 1921; 1920 | In a recent essay in Salon, Christopher Ott argues that much of educational technology is used in the service of a model of education as "a passive transfer of information ...." As Ott says, "Web sites and CD-ROMs are very good at delivering information, but not so good at teaching what it means or raising difficult qu... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | New Tools for Learners | By: 1921; 1920 | In a recent essay in Salon, Christopher Ott argues that much of educational technology is used in the service of a model of education as "a passive transfer of information ...." As Ott says, "Web sites and CD-ROMs are very good at delivering information, but not so good at teac... | ||
88 | Enriching Drawing | 3099 | A three year project to develop a computer based learning package in drawing. Until the latest round of funding, United Kingdom Higher Education (UKHE) through the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP), despite an overall budget of around £75 million, had not made any sizeable investment in learning technol... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Enriching Drawing | By: 3099 | A three year project to develop a computer based learning package in drawing. Until the latest round of funding, United Kingdom Higher Education (UKHE) through the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP), despite an overall budget of around £75 million, had not made any sizeable... | ||
89 | Caught in the Decameron Web: New Tools for Scholars and Teachers | 3100; 1688; 2971; 3101 | Since 1995, Brown University's Decameron Web has endeavored to assist students with the study of Giovanni Boccaccio's life and works. From its humble beginnings as a series of hyperlinked student essays in a storyspace environment, the site has been in a constant state of regeneration, metamorphosing itself in new dire... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Caught in the Decameron Web: New Tools for Scholars and Teachers | By: 3100; 1688; 2971; 3101 | Since 1995, Brown University's Decameron Web has endeavored to assist students with the study of Giovanni Boccaccio's life and works. From its humble beginnings as a series of hyperlinked student essays in a storyspace envir... | ||
90 | Like a Bird on a Wire: WWW and Remote Learners in British Columbia | 3102; 3103 | The World Wide Web has not only the potential to expand our conceptions of the processes of teaching and learning, it also has the power to help overcome some of the physical limitations imposed by the standard approach to classroom based learning. This "poster" addresses issues of web delivery in remote access locatio... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Like a Bird on a Wire: WWW and Remote Learners in British Columbia | By: 3102; 3103 | The World Wide Web has not only the potential to expand our conceptions of the processes of teaching and learning, it also has the power to help overcome some of the physical limitations imposed by the standard approach to classroom b... | ||
91 | On Consensus between Tree-representations of Linguistic Data | 3104; 3105 | 1. Introduction One of the aims of modern linguistics, particularly of the computational persuasion, is to infer from the ever-growing mass of actual data available, the implicit, virtual organization underlying the apparent disorder and diversity of surface phenomena. This ever-present crucial duality is also at work ... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | On Consensus between Tree-representations of Linguistic Data | By: 3104; 3105 | 1. Introduction One of the aims of modern linguistics, particularly of the computational persuasion, is to infer from the ever-growing mass of actual data available, the implicit, virtual organization underlying the apparent disorder and di... | ||
92 | An Electronic Lexicon of Nominalizations: NOMLEX | 3053; 3106; 3107 | New York University (NYU) has recently completed Nomlex, a dictionary containing detailed syntactic information about 1000 common English nominalizations. This dictionary, which has been developed for use in natural language processing, is freely available from NYU. History: Previous dictionary work at NYU includes COM... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | An Electronic Lexicon of Nominalizations: NOMLEX | By: 3053; 3106; 3107 | New York University (NYU) has recently completed Nomlex, a dictionary containing detailed syntactic information about 1000 common English nominalizations. This dictionary, which has been developed for use in natural language processing, is freely... | ||
93 | CAT : A Jurilinguistic Application of Automatic Speech to Text Transcription | 3108; 3109; 3110; 3111; 3112; 3113; 3114 | 1. Introduction British rule in Hong Kong made English the only official language in the legal domain for over a century. It was not until the reversion of sovereignty to China in 1997 that Chinese came to also enjoy official status in the Judiciary of Hong Kong. Legal bilingualism in Hong Kong has brought on an urgent... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | CAT : A Jurilinguistic Application of Automatic Speech to Text Transcription | By: 3108; 3109; 3110; 3111; 3112; 3113; 3114 | 1. Introduction British rule in Hong Kong made English the only official language in the legal domain for over a century. It was not until the reversion of sovereignty to China in 1997 that Chin... | ||
94 | Shouting and Screaming: Manner and Noise Verbs in Communication | 3115; 3116 | In many languages, words can be used in different domains from those in which they originated. In English, sound verbs are commonly used in the context of human communication (1-4). (1) ('Shut up, Doreen,'[MESSAGE]) (Silas[SPEAKER]) barked, his face contorted by a scowl. (2) ('Darling,'[MESSAGE]) (Conrad[SPEAKER]) cooe... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Shouting and Screaming: Manner and Noise Verbs in Communication | By: 3115; 3116 | In many languages, words can be used in different domains from those in which they originated. In English, sound verbs are commonly used in the context of human communication (1-4). (1) ('Shut up, Doreen,'[MESSAGE]) (Silas[SPEAKER]) bark... | ||
95 | The Style-Marker Mapping Project: a Rationale and Progress Report | 8023 | Introduction This paper explicates the what, why, and how of a substantially completed but ongoing project to identify and categorize all style-markers in written English that are quantifiable (e.g. type/token ratios, word length distributions, word length correlations, hapax legomena). Section I treats the what - defi... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | The Style-Marker Mapping Project: a Rationale and Progress Report | By: 8023 | Introduction This paper explicates the what, why, and how of a substantially completed but ongoing project to identify and categorize all style-markers in written English that are quantifiable (e.g. type/token ratios, word length distributio... | ||
96 | Comparative Study of the Lexical and Orthographic Variety in the Mediæval Slavonic Psalter | 3117; 3118 | 1. Introduction 1.1. Text variety in mediæval Slavonic texts The mediæval Slavonic written tradition is characterised by a high level of variety on all linguistic levels. This is usually explained with the use of a vernacular language in the Mediaeval Slavonic texts. The spread of the texts to regions with substantial ... | 2000 | paper | Glasgow | Comparative Study of the Lexical and Orthographic Variety in the Mediæval Slavonic Psalter | By: 3117; 3118 | 1. Introduction 1.1. Text variety in mediæval Slavonic texts The mediæval Slavonic written tradition is characterised by a high level of variety on all linguistic levels. This is usually explained with the use ... | ||
97 | Subject Specific Search Engines for the Humanities | 3119 | The Internet has proven to be a vast and unruly resource. Students are happy to come to the library and use general engines such as AltaVista and directories such as Yahoo! to do their research on the Web, but often the results they generate are extraneous and from unreliable sources. To make matters worse, recent stud... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Subject Specific Search Engines for the Humanities | By: 3119 | The Internet has proven to be a vast and unruly resource. Students are happy to come to the library and use general engines such as AltaVista and directories such as Yahoo! to do their research on the Web, but often the results they generate are extraneous... | ||
98 | The Academic vs. Subject Corpus: Development of Criteria for the Teaching of ESP According to Lexical Needs in Spanish Polytechnic Courses | 3120 | The aim of this paper is to offer the details gathered from the lexical analysis of English texts read in Information Science related majors in Spanish universities. In such a textual collection, lexical items are arranged according to the notions of word frequency and range across text types and genres, or within give... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | The Academic vs. Subject Corpus: Development of Criteria for the Teaching of ESP According to Lexical Needs in Spanish Polytechnic Courses | By: 3120 | The aim of this paper is to offer the details gathered from the lexical analysis of English texts read in Information Science related majors in Spanish universities. In... | ||
99 | Hyperfiction Reading Research: An Experiment in Method | 2972 | [1] Introduction Hyperfiction reading experiments have been carried out as part of the author's PhD research. The experiment complements and, in significant ways, extends methods for critical metadiscursive commentary on non-linear literary texts, and can be considered a preliminary and partial response to a question p... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Hyperfiction Reading Research: An Experiment in Method | By: 2972 | [1] Introduction Hyperfiction reading experiments have been carried out as part of the author's PhD research. The experiment complements and, in significant ways, extends methods for critical metadiscursive commentary on non-linear literary texts, and ... | ||
100 | Hyperlectures: Teaching Postmodern Culture on the Web | 2857 | One of the major didactic difficulties, regardless of the kind of knowledge that must be learnt, seems to be that of ensuring a correct "transfer" of information from the teacher to the learner. This "transfer", as Plato already illustrated, may be problematic because of what happens in the "head" of the learner, somet... | 2000 | poster / demo / art installation | Glasgow | Hyperlectures: Teaching Postmodern Culture on the Web | By: 2857 | One of the major didactic difficulties, regardless of the kind of knowledge that must be learnt, seems to be that of ensuring a correct "transfer" of information from the teacher to the learner. This "transfer", as Plato already illustrated, may be prob... |
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