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The Dynamic Text: ALLC/ICCH Toronto Conference Tools for Humanists, 1989: a fair of notable software and hardware June 6--10, 1989 Toronto-Oxford Summer School in Humanities Computing May 29--June 16, 1989 _________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Search for >1, >2, etc. >1 Sponsors >2 The Conference >3 The Fair >4 The Toronto-Oxford Summer School >5 Registration >6 Accommodation >7 Centre for Computing in the Humanities >8 Advance Conference Schedule >9 Summer School Course Schedule >10 Summer School Faculty >11 ACH & ALLC Application Forms _________________________________________________________________ >1 MAJOR CORPORATE SPONSOR IBM Canada Ltd PRINCIPAL SUPPORTING SPONSORS Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/ Consortium pour Ordinateurs en sciences humaines IN COLLABORATION WITH The Italian Cultural Institute (Toronto) The Toronto Semiotic Circle (University of Toronto) Humanities Research Consortium (University of Toronto) _________________________________________________________________ >2 THE CONFERENCE It would be hard to underestimate the extent to which text, common as it is to all humanistic studies, has been transformed simply by being created, edited, searched, linked with other texts, analyzed, catalogued, and stored electronically. Computing now affects every stage in the life-cycle of a text. The impact of this dynamic transformation on the powers of the text in education and research has been pervasive and fundamental, an evolutionary process that will continue as methodologies developed in computational linguistics find application in the humanities. "The Dynamic Text" -- the 16th International ALLC Conference and the 9th International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (ICCH) -- will explore ways to enhance our understanding and creation of books, our intellectual heritage, by the use of computers. One goal of this conference is to promote cooperation between computing humanists and computational linguists for solving problems of long-standing concern to the former by means of innovative methods of interest to the latter. Confirmed invited speakers are Etienne Brunet (Nice) Nicoletta Calzolari (Pisa) Northrop Frye (Toronto) Jean-Claude Gardin (Paris) Nigel Gardner (Oxford) Jostein Hauge (Bergen) Akifumi Oikawa (Japan) Bernard Quemada (Paris) Helmut Schanze (Siegen) Manfred Thaller (Goettingen) Liu Yongquan (Beijing) Antonio Zampolli (Pisa) They will speak in plenary sessions on literary computing, large text databases, new technology, methodologies in literary and historical analysis, lexicography, and humanities computing in the Pacific Rim. Thirty parallel sessions will take place, some of them sponsored by a dozen invited associations and institutions. These sessions will concern the following topics: archaeology lexical databases authorship attribution manuscript bibliographies computational linguistics music and humanistic research national research funding computer-assisted learning agencies content analysis narrative analysis databases scanning discourse analysis stylistics editorial problems text archives the French novel textbases funding issues text encoding hypertext The associations and institutions sponsoring special sessions are: American Historical Association (AHA) American Philological Association (APA) American Philosophical Association (APA) Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Association for History and Computing (AHC) Association Internationale Bible et Informatique (AIBI) Linguistic Society of America (LSA) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Libraries Group (RLG) Participants will come from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, West Germany, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries. The conference will take place in Toronto, Canada, on 5--10 June 1989, in the Medical Sciences Buildings on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. The local host is the Centre for Computing in the Humanities. The International Programme Committee is made up of the following representatives of the two organizations: Paul Bratley, Computer Science, Universite de Montreal (ALLC) Paul Fortier, French, University of Manitoba (ACH) Jacqueline Hamesse, Philosophy, Universite Catholique de Louvain (ALLC) Susan Hockey, Oxford University (ALLC) Nancy Ide, Computer Science, Vassar College (ACH, ALLC) Randall Jones, German, Brigham Young University (ACH) Ian Lancashire, English, University of Toronto (ACH, ALLC) Robert Oakman, Computer Science, University of South Carolina (ACH) Antonio Zampolli, Computer Science, University of Pisa (ALLC) Toronto ALLC-ICCH89 will be the first time that both world organizations in this field have met together. To celebrate this occasion, speakers representing the best in scholarly computing in many fields have been invited from all over the world to present leading developments and achievements in their countries. Within Canada, ALLC-ICCH89 will be sponsored by the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH), whose President is Professor Elaine Nardocchio, McMaster University. Consortium members include twenty Canadian universities from coast to coast. Other valued sponsors are the Italian Cultural Institute and the British Council. We are proud to announce that sole corporate sponsor for the conference is IBM Canada Ltd., to which both associations and the local host for the conference, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, are indebted for its strong support. _________________________________________________________________ >3 THE FAIR At the same time as the Conference, the ACH and ALLC, with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, is sponsoring ``Tools for Humanists, 1989'', an international fair of notable software and hardware, with a published guide for all registrants. The Fair will include a wide range of products of special interest to computing humanists. Microcomputer software for IBM, Apple and Sun equipment, mainframe programs, online databases, and related hardware will be demonstrated, in most cases by the developer. Academic exhibitors will not be charged, although commercial vendors will pay a modest fee. Attendees will be encouraged to exchange public-domain programs, and vendors of proprietary products allowed to sell copies during the Fair. The guidebook to the Fair will be designed along the lines of the volume put together for the Toronto conference in April 1986. Each entry in the Guide will consist of a lengthy description written by the developer, and accurate technical information. In addition some microcomputers will be made available in a "Hackers' Corner" for impromptu demonstrations. A few terminals will also be provided for access to electronic mail. Approximately 50 demonstrations are planned for the software fair and associated workshops. An incomplete list of these follows. A Linguistic Database (Hans van Halteren, University of Nijmegen) ARTFL (Mark Olsen, University of Chicago) Biblical Databases (Br. R.-F. Poswick, Abbey of Maredsous, Belgium) Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (Charles Faulhaber, UC Berkeley) Brushwriter (Innotech) Clearinghouse of Information on Teaching Computers and the Humanities Courses (Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon) Computer Expert Vision System for Archaeology (Irwin Rovner, North Carolina State University) COMTEXT (Alan Bailin, Annick Deakin, and Glyn Holmes, University of Western Ontario) Dante Database (Robert Hollander, Dartmouth Dante Database Project) DIDASCALIA (Wim Uyttersprot, University of Antwerp) DISCAN (Pierre Maranda, Laval University) French phonetic analysis (Philippe Martin, University of Toronto) Graphically-Oriented Archaeological Database (Kelvin Goodson and others, University of Southampton) HIDES (Frank Colson, University of Southampton) HyperScribe (Norwegian Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Bergen) Ibycus hardware and software (Robert Kraft, University of Pennsylvania) Italian CALL Courseware Generator (Norwegian Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Bergen) KAYE (Geoffrey Kaye, IBM Scientific Centre, Winchester) Lace (Les Carr, University of Southampton) LBase (John Baima, Silver Mountain Software) Le Lemmatiseur, DAT, SYREX (Michael Mepham, Laval University) Lessico Intellectuale Europeo database (Giovanni Adamo, University of Rome La Sapienza) LiTerms (Richard Rust, University of North Carolina) LOGOS (Clifford Anderson, University of Manitoba) mcBOOKmaster (Samuel Cioran, McMaster University) MEMDB (Martha Carlin, Rutgers) Mercury Termex (Alan Melby, Brigham Young University) Micro-Eyeball (David C. Hunter and Donald Ross Jr., University of Minnesota) Micro-OCP (Oxford University Press) Micro-TUSTEP (Wilhelm Ott, University of Tubingen) Milim (Tzvee Zahavy and Tzvika Goldenberg, University of Minnesota) Norwegian software (Louis Janus, St. Olaf College) Nota Bene (Steve Siebert, Dragonfly Software) NoteCards (Craig Sweat, Envos Corp.) Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) PC-Write Documentation Engine (Heyward Ehrlich, Rutgers) Perseus (Elli Mylonas, Harvard University) Packard Humanities Institute CD-ROMs (Robert Kraft, University of Pennsylvania) Southampton-York Archaeological Simulation System (Sebastian Rahtz and Brendan O'Flaherty, University of Southampton) STRAP (Teresa Snelgrove, University of Toronto) Systeme-D (Donald Sola, Cornell University) TACT (John Bradley, University of Toronto) Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Robert Kraft, University of Pennsylvania) Turing (Ric Holt, University of Toronto) Unite (Francesco Marcos-Marin, Madrid) WordCruncher (Electronic Text Corporation, Provo) For the purposes of the Fair, all e-mail should be directed to Dr. Willard McCarty, FAIR @ VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA or FAIR @ UTOREPAS. _________________________________________________________________ >4 THE OXFORD-TORONTO SUMMER SCHOOL The University of Toronto and Oxford University are offering a Summer School in Humanities Computing, to take place in the week before the conference (May 29-June 5), and the week after the conference (June 12-16). The directors of this Summer School are Ian Lancashire (Toronto) and Susan Hockey (Oxford), the local host is the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, and the sponsors are the ACH, ALLC, and COCH/COSH. The objectives of the Summer School are to deliver the most current information about, and practical experience with, applications for computers in arts and humanities teaching and research. Instructors have been specially selected for their extensive teaching experience, their knowledge of current technology, and their international reputation in this field. They represent excellence in both Europe and North America. Those registered in these courses will have access to computing laboratories at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto Computing Services, and the School of Continuing Studies. Resources will include PC-DOS and Macintosh labs, an interactive video lab, and where desirable access to mainframes. All facilities are located on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto in the heart of the downtown Toronto area. Most courses will consist of five two-hour seminars, one each day from Monday to Friday, and (as appropriate) work in laboratories at convenient times. It will be possible for registrants to attend four courses: they will be taught at 8:45--10:45 am, 11 am--1 pm, 2--4 pm, and 4:15--6:15 pm. A one-day course/workshop on Advanced Function Workstations will take place on Monday June 5 on the day before the conference begins. _________________________________________________________________ >5 REGISTRATION Registration fees for the four-day conference and software fair, payable (in Canadian dollars) at registration. ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH member/speaker $ 225.00 Non-member $ 255.00 Student $ 125.00 Late registration $ 295.00 (after May 15) For application forms and information on how to join the ACH and ALLC, see the end of this document. Summer School course fees are as follows. Those attending the Summer School will be encouraged to take more than one course. Rates for the second and third course will be progressively lower than that for the first course. A lower fee has been set for the one-day Advanced Function Workstation (AFW) course. FULL COURSES 1st 2nd 3rd-8th AFW course course courses course Member of ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH 175.00 125.00 100.00 75.00 Non-member 200.00 175.00 150.00 100.00 Student 125.00 100.00 75.00 50.00 You may request information for both conference and summer school or register immediately by telephone on a 24-hour basis. Using a touch-tone telephone, call North American area code (416) 978--2400. Your call will take about 15 minutes. Press button 1 if you wish to request detailed information mailed to you. Ask for The Dynamic Text brochure. Press button 5 to register immediately or pay by VISA, MasterCard or cheque. When prompted, enter the appropriate course number and section code for association members, non-members, or students. SCS 3700: Conference and Software Fair Section 01A ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH members Section 02B Non-members Section 03C Students SCS 3701: Conference Banquet Section 01A One person Section 02B Two persons If you do not have a touchtone telephone, you may call a Registration Officer between the hours of 9 am to 5 pm (Toronto time) at (416) 978--5527. Information about accommodation, conference schedule, Tools for Humanists, and the Summer School will be mailed to you immediately following your registration. By Mail, you may request information by writing to: Registration Officer The Dynamic Text Conference University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies 158 St. George St. Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 2V8 By FAX, you may request information by transmitting to: Registration Officer The Dynamic Text Conference University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (416) 978--5673 By E-mail, send requests to: The Dynamic Text Conference CCH @ VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA or CCH @ UTOREPAS _________________________________________________________________ >6 ACCOMMODATION Accommodation has been reserved in the Park Plaza and Westbury Hotels and in University of Toronto student residences. The Westbury Hotel, 475 Yonge St., Toronto, Ont. M4Y 1X7. Special group rates are $89 per room, per day, single or double occupancy (Canadian dollars), plus sales tax of 5%. Reservations must be made 30 days prior to arrival. The Westbury Hotel is located in Toronto's busy downtown entertainment and shopping area and is a pleasant 10-15 minutes' walk from the university. Telephone: (416) 924--0611. Canada and USA: (800) 387--0647. FAX: (416) 924-5061. Reservations are required no fewer than 30 days prior to arrival. The Park Plaza Hotel, 4 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ont. M5R 2E8. Special group rates are $125 per room, per day, single or double occupancy (Canadian dollars), plus sales tax of 5%. Reservations must be made 30 days prior to arrival. The Park Plaza Hotel is located about 10 minutes' walk north of the university in the fashionable Yorkville shopping area off Bloor St. West near the Royal Ontario Museum. Telephone: (416) 924-5471. FAX: (416) 924-4933. Telex: 0622295. Reservations must be received no later than May 13, 1989. University of Toronto residences: Whitney Hall (co-ed), University College, 85 St. George St., Wilson Hall, New College (women only), and Wetmore Hall, New College (men only). Rates, including breakfast, are $35 per room, per day (single), or $23 per person, per day (twin: two single beds), in Canadian dollars. These rates do not include provincial sales tax. Washrooms are communal; bedding, towels, and soap are provided. Accommodation cannot be provided for children under age 5. Residences are about 5 minutes' walk from the conference and summer school locations. Telephone: (416) 978-8735. Reservations must be received by April 28, 1989 (to allow time for a confirmation to be mailed out), together with a non-refundable deposit of one night's stay per person by certified cheque, money order, or Visa/Mastercard number. Mail to ALLC-ICCH89 Joint Meeting, Conference Services, University of Toronto, Room 240, Simcoe Hall, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1. _________________________________________________________________ >7 CENTRE FOR COMPUTING IN THE HUMANITIES The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) was established in 1985 at the University of Toronto within the Faculty of Arts and Science to serve the needs of both undergraduate computing and graduate research and teaching. It operates three public computer facilities, as well as an optical scanning service with a Kurzweil 4000 and a Humanities Publication Centre, and develops uncopy-protected software for text analysis with members of the University of Toronto Computing Services. Currently the CCH has a three-year cooperative partnership with IBM Canada Ltd. through which it was set up. CCH operates Humanist, an international electronic discussion group for computing humanists with access to Bitnet/NetNorth/EARN or to any network connected with these. CCH also publishes The Humanities Computing Yearbook with Oxford University Press and acts as a general information and research centre for the Canada-wide Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH), for which it publishes Canadian Humanities Computing, a quarterly newsletter. _________________________________________________________________ >8 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW This schedule is subject to change. _____________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | |___________|______________|________________|________________|_______________| | | | | | | |9-10:20 am | PLENARY 1: | PLENARY 3: | PLENARY 4: | PLENARY 5: | | | Opening: | Large Textbases| New Technology| Methodology | | |Literary Comp | | | in lit/hist | | | | | | | | | N. Frye | N. Calzolari- | N. Gardner | E. Brunet | | | | A. Zampolli | | | | | J.-C. Gardin | T. Brunner | J. Hauge | M. Thaller | |___________|______________|________________|________________|_______________| | | | | | | |10:45-12:15| | | | | | pm | BREAKOUT 1 | BREAKOUT 3 | BREAKOUT 6 | BREAKOUT 9 | | | | | | | | | *ComLing 1 | Textbases 1 | LitComp 4 | Textbases 3 | | | (ACL 1) | *ComLing 3 | | | | | Manuscripts | (LingSocAmer.) | Archaeol 2 | *APhilogA | | | Learning 1 | *Funding Rdt | *AIBI | *SCCAC | | | Archaeology 1| LitComp 2 | Archives | Databases 3 | |___________|______________|________________|________________|_______________| | | | | | | |2:00-3:30 | | | | | | pm | BREAKOUT 2 | BREAKOUT 4 | BREAKOUT 7 | BREAKOUT 10 | | | | | | | | | LitComp 1 | Text Markup | ComLing 5 | ComLing 7 | | | ComLing 2 | Hypertext 1 | Music 1 | LitComp 7 | | | *Databases 1 | *NEH | *Textbases 3 | Archaeology 3 | | | (RLG) | | (APhilosopA) | | | | Poster 1: | Poster 2: | Poster 3: | *Learning 2 | | | Learning | ComLing | LitComp 5 | (AHA) | |___________|______________|________________|________________|_______________| |4:00-5:30 | | | | | | pm | PLENARY 2: | BREAKOUT 5 | BREAKOUT 8 | PLENARY 6: | | | China and | | | Closing | | | Japan | | | | | | A. Oikawa | Editing | LitComp 6 | B. Quemada | | | Y. Liu | Textbases 2 |*Databases2(AHC)| N. Ide | | | | *ComLing 4 | Scanning | H. Schanze | | | | (ACL 2) | Music 2 | | | | | LitComp3 | | | |___________|______________|________________|________________|_______________| | | | 8:00-10:00 pm | 8:15-10:15 pm | | | | | Text Encoding | Archives Panel | | | | | Initiative | | | | | | Open | | | | | | Meeting | | | |___________|______________|________________|________________|_______________| DETAILED CONFERENCE OVERVIEW 1. MONDAY 5 JUNE - 8:30 am: Registration (Lobby, Medical Sciences) - 9:30--5:00 pm: Advanced Function Workstations (Norman Meyrowitz, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, and Ronald Weissman, University of Maryland). - 9:30--12:30 pm Morning Workshops * Thematic Analysis of Computer-Readable Texts (John Bradley, University of Toronto) * Computer-Assisted English Composition for Native and Non-Native Speakers (Susan Wagman and Richard Sammons) - 1:30--5:00 pm Morning Workshops * WordCruncher (Electronic Text Corporation) * Turing (Ric Holt, University of Toronto) - 1:30--3:00 pm: ALLC Executive Committee Meeting (Massey College Upper Library) - 3:30--5:00 pm: ACH Executive Committee Meeting (Massey College Upper Library) - 5:00--6:30 pm: CCH/University reception for ACH and ALLC Executives (Massey College Junior Common Room) 2. TUESDAY 6 JUNE - 8:00 am: Registration (Medical Sciences Building Lobby) - 8:45 am: Opening Plenary Session: Literary Computing Welcome: Ian Lancashire; Antonio Zampolli; Nancy Ide; Elaine Nardocchio, Consortium; IBM Canada Ltd.; U of T official. - 9:00--9:40 am. Keynote lecture: Northrop Frye (Toronto). - 9:40--10:20 am. Keynote lecture: Jean-Claude Gardin (CNRS, Paris) - 10:20-10:45 am. Coffee break - 10:30-5:00 pm. Software Fair - 10:45--12:15 am: Breakout Sessions 1A--1D * 1A: Computational Linguistics 1: Panel on the Use of the Lexicon in Humanistic Research (Association for Computational Linguistics). Chair: Don Walker (Bellcore) - Robert Amsler, Bellcore (extracting lexical information from text) - Bran Boguraev, Cambridge University and IBM (the acquisition of lexical knowledge for language processing systems) - Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa (lexical databases and knowledge bases) - Edward Fox, VPI&SU---Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (building a lexicon from machine-readable dictionaries for more efficient information retrieval) - Robert Ingria, BBN Systems & Technologies (the structure of the lexicon) - James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University (lexical semantics) - Susan Warwick, ISSCO---Istituto Dalle Molle per gli Studi Semantici e Cognitivi, Geneva (the lexicon in translation) * 1B. Computerized Manuscript Bibliographies Chair: Lawrence McCrank - Robert Sinkewicz, "The Greek Index Project" (University of Toronto) - Charles B. Faulhaber, "Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts: Problems and Solutions in a Relational Data Base of Medieval Manuscripts" (University of California at Berkeley) - Jacqueline Hamesse, "Discovering Manuscripts by Means of Incipits" (Catholic University of Louvain) * 1C: Computer-Assisted Learning 1 Chair: TBA - Hiroshi Nara, "Developing CAI for Improving Reading Skills in Japanese" (University of Pittsburgh) - Alan Bailin, Annick Deakin, Glyn Holmes, "A CALL System for reading comprehension and the processing of student errors" (University of Western Ontario) - Gregory Lessard, Michael Levison, Diego Bastianutti, James K. McDonald, Scott Hurd, and Don Smith, "The Role of Attributes in a Generative CALL Program" (Queen's University) * 1D: Archaeology 1: Overview Chair: Vanda Vitali (University of Toronto). - John D. Wilcock, "Over Thirty Years' Application of the Computer in Archaeology" (Staffordshire Polytechnic) - Foss Leach, "A Review of Computer Applications in Pacific Archaeology" (University of Otago) - Les Carr, Wendy Hall, Sebastian Rahtz, "New Designs for Archaeological Reports" (University of Southampton) - 1:00--5:30 pm: Opening of Software Fair. - 2:00--3:30 pm: Sessions 2A--2D. * 2A: Literary Computing 1: Discourse Analysis. Chair: Rosanne Potter (Iowa State University) - Teresa Snelgrove, "A Method for the Analysis of Narrative Texts" (University of Toronto) - Ira Nadel and Stephen Matsuba, "Literary Uses of DISCAN: A Content and Discourse Analysis Program" (University of British Columbia) - Elaine Nardocchio, "Testing Reader Response" (McMaster University) * 2B: Computational Linguistics 2: Lexical Databases. Chair: Gerd Willee (Bonn University). - Robert J. P. Ingria, "Grammar Evaluation in the BBN Spoken Language System" (BBN Systems and Technologies Corp., Cambridge, Mass.) - Geoffrey Kaye and Gary J. Calder, "A Lexical and Speaking Corpus Browser for Spoken English" (IBM UK Scientific Centre, Winchester) - Frank Tompa and Darrell R. Raymond, "Database Design for a Dictionary of the Future" (University of Waterloo) * 2C: Databases 1: Sharing Research Information on a National Network (Research Library Group Special Session). Chair: Hans Rutimann (Research Libraries Group). - Martha Carlin, "The Banking of History: MEMDB" (Rutgers University) - Mary Ellen Capek, "Building an Interdisciplinary Database: The Example of Women's Studies" (National Council for Research on Women). - Connie Gould, "From Information about Information to Information Itself" (RLG) * 2D: Poster Session 3: Computer-Assisted Learning - Clair Bigler, "Word-Processing Labs that Work" (University of Wisconsin-- Washington County) - D. M. Church, "Interactive Audio for Foreign-Language Learning: Rationale, Prospects and Examples" (Vanderbilt University) - L. G. Donovan and W. Vollmerhaus, "An Interactive Microcomputer Based System for Vocabulary Study" (University of Calgary) - Alexander Friedlander, "The Computer and Freshman Writers: Effects of Training on the Macintosh" (Drexel University) - Joseph Rudman, "A Clearinghouse of Information on Teaching Computers and the Humanities Courses" (Carnegie Mellon University) - 3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break - 4:00--5:30 pm. Plenary Session: Humanities Computing in the Pacific Rim. Chair: Kazuko Nakajima (University of Toronto). * 4:00--4:40. Keynote lecture: Dr. Akifumi Oikawa (National Institute for Educational Research, Japan) * 4:40--5:20 pm. Keynote lecture: Dr. Liu Yongquan (Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and Professor, Universitat Trier, BRD) - 5:30--7:30 pm: IBM Canada Ltd. Reception. Stop 33, Sutton Place Hotel. - 7:30--8:30 pm: Open meeting of the Board of Directors of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/ Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH). 3. WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE - 8:15 am: Registration (Medical Sciences Building Lobby) - 9:00--12:00 pm. Plenary Session: Large Text Databases * 9:00--9:40 am. Chair: TBA Keynote lecture: Nicoletta Calzolari and Antonio Zampolli (University of Pisa) * 9:40--10:20 am. Chair: TBA. Keynote lecture: Theodore Brunner (University of California at Irvine) - 10:20-10:45 am. Coffee break - 10:30-5:00 pm. Software Fair - 10:45--12:15 pm: Breakout Sessions 3A--3D * 3A: Textbases 1: Tools for Teaching Literature Chair: TBA - Susan Hockey, Jo Freedman, and John Cooper, "OTSS: The Oxford Text Searching System" (Oxford University) - Mary Dee Harris, "Literary Analysis with the Computer: An English Elective at Georgetown University" (SRAC) - Hans van Halteren, "The Scholar's Workdesk: A STRIDER Case Study" (University of Nijmegen) * 3B: Computational Linguistics 3 (Linguistic Society of America Special Session). Chair: Nancy Frishberg (IBM US). - Elan Dresher, "YOUPIE: A Parameter-based Learning Model for Metrical Phonology" (University of Toronto) - Walter Creed, Bob Chandler, Steve Richardson, "Critique as a Teaching Tool for Writing Classes" (University of Hawaii at Manoa, and IBM, Bethesda, Maryland) - Rennie Gonsalves, "Modeling Psychological Semantics: A Definitional Approach" (Brooklyn College) * 3C: Roundtable on Funding Computer-Assisted Research (Consortium for Research in the Humanities Special Session). Chair: A. F. Johnston (University of Toronto). * 3D: Literary Computing 2: Stylistics Chair: Daniel Brink - Rosanne Potter, "The Oxford Concordance Program and the Dramatic Vocabulary of Oscar Wilde" (Iowa State University) - Thomas N. Corns, "Aspects of Milton's Language: An SPSS-based Study" (University College of North Wales) - David Chisholm, "A Computer-Assisted Study of Sound and Rhythm in Twentieth-Century German Literary Prose" (University of Arizona) - Nicholas Ranson, "Crookback Dick and Prince Hal: An Analysis of Shakespearean Idiolect" (University of Akron) - 1:30--3:00 pm: Breakout Sessions * 4A: Text Mark-up and Editing Chair: TBA - David T. Barnard, Robert G. Crawford, and George M. Logan, "Creation and Use of a Complex SGML-Tagged Text: Hayakawa's Symphony" (Queen's University) - Lou Burnard, Thomas N. Corns, and Roy Flannagan, "A Milton Database: Descriptive Markup, Multiple Manuscript Versions, and the Use of Hypertext" (Oxford University, University College of North Wales, and Ohio University) - C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, "A Directed-Graph Data Structure for Text" (University of Illinois at Chicago) * 4B: Hypertext 1: HyperCard Chair: John Roper (Norwich) - Charles D. Bush and Kurt A. Hills, "Modular Design in a HyperCard Approach to Jude the Obscure" (Brigham Young University) - Becky A. Clawson and Jon D. Green, "The Computer that Wears Toe Shoes" (Brigham Young University) - Donald Ross Jr., "Using HyperCard for Literature Instruction" (University of Minneapolis) * 4C: National Research Funding Agencies. Chair: Nigel Gardner. - NEH (Helen Aguera) - TBA (SSHRCC) - Mark Evans (British Council) * 4D: Poster Session 2: Computational Linguistics - P. S. di Virgilio, "Extendibility in Eurotra: Machine Translation and Heuristic Grammar" (University of Toronto) - Ping Lin and E. S. Lee, "The Application of the Linguist Programming Language to Grammar Construction" (University of Toronto) - Philippe Martin, "Hardware and Software Add-ons to Teach French Intonation" (CNET, France) - Michael Mepham, "Interactive Word Recognition" (Laval University) - D. W. Russell and Hannah Fournier, "A Study of Gender Bias in the Oxford English Dictionary" (University of Waterloo) - Roberta Sinyor, "The Implementation and Applications of an Italian Parser" (York University) - A. W. C. Verboom, "Parsing Sanskrit" (Leiden University) - 3:00--3:30 pm: Coffee break - 3:30--5:00 pm: Sessions 5A--5D. * 5A: Editorial Problems Chair: Gordon Dixon - Ruth Glynn, "Archiving Texts: Cui Bono?" (Oxford University Press) - Andrew Fountain, "The Kai Project" (University of Southampton) - Francisco Marcos-Marin, "UNITE: Philological Editing and Computational Criticism" (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) * 5B: Textbases 2: Making Literary Textbases Chair: TBA - Terry Butler, "Using Spires for a Literary Text Base" (University of Alberta) - Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, "Automatic Lemmatization of Classical Armenian Texts" (Leiden University) - T. R. Wooldridge, "Microcomputer Concordancing" (University of Toronto) * 5C: Computational Linguistics 3: Computational Linguistics and Humanistic Research (Association for Computational Linguistics Special Session). Chair: Don Walker, Bellcore. - Mary Dee Harris, SRA (the interdependence of computational linguists' knowledge of language and humanists' knowledge of texts) - Nancy Ide, Vassar College (the convergence of computer-aided literary research and computational linguistic analysis) - Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto (developing an annotated corpus of English literature) - Mitchell Marcus, University of Pennsylvania (developing a computational linguistically annotated corpus of spoken and written English) - Don Walker, Bellcore (issues in the ecology of language for computational linguistic analysis and humanistic research) - Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa (organizing and coordinating computational linguistic and humanistic research) * 5D: Literary Computing 3: Authorship Attribution. Chair: Barron Brainerd (University of Toronto) - Joseph Rudman, "Daniel Defoe: An Authorship Attribution Study" (Carnegie Mellon University) - Thomas B. Horton, "Frequent Words, Authorship and Characterization in Jacobean Drama" (Florida Atlantic University) - Karen Kossuth, "The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy: Testing the Efron/Thisted Method" (Pomona College) - 5:15--6:15 pm. ACH General Meeting. - 8:00--10:00 pm: Open Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative. (Association of Computational Linguistics. Association for Computing in the Humanities. Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Special Session) 4. THURSDAY 8 JUNE - 8:15 am: Registration (Medical Sciences Building Lobby) - 9:00--10:20 pm. Plenary Session: New Technology: Developments for Teaching and Research. Chair: Susan Hockey (Oxford University). * 9:00--9:40 am. Keynote lecture: Nigel Gardner (UK) * 9:40--10:20 am. Keynote lecture: Jostein Hauge (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen) - 10:20-10:45 am. Coffee break - 10:30-5:00 pm. Software Fair - 10:45--12:15 pm: Breakout Sessions * 6A: Literary Computing 4: Narrative Analysis Chair: Hans van Halteren (University of Nijmegen) - N. Oostdijk, "The Language of Dialogue in Fiction" (University of Nijmegen) - Jon-K. Adams, "A Computer Model of Narrative Order" (Augsburg University) - Nancy M. Ide and Jean Veronis, "An AI Approach to Literary Narrative" (Vassar College, and GRTC-CNRS, Marseille) * 6B: Archaeology and History 2: Texts and Images. Chair: Vanda Vitali (University of Toronto). - John E. Semonche, "The Potential of Computer Simulations to Teach History and the Skills Associated with a Liberal Education" (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - Roger Martlew, "Pictures and Pedagogy: Teaching Archaeology Using Image Archives on Videodisc" (University of Leicester) - Paul Reilly, "Recent Progress in Data Visualization in Archaeology" (IBM UK Scientific Centre, Winchester) * 6C: Association Internationale Bible et Informatique. Chair: Br. R.-F. Poswick (Abbey of Maredsous, Belgium) - Br. R.-F. Poswick, "Searching for Inference Engines in the Literary Field" (Maredsous) - TBA - TBA * 6D: Text Archives. Chair: Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania) - Estelle Irizarry, "An Archive of Modern Hispanic Texts" (Georgetown University) - Louis Milic, "The Century of Prose Corpus" (Cleveland State University) - Randall Jones, "The BYU German Archive" (Brigham Young University) - 1:00--5:30 pm: Software Fair. - 2:00--3:30 pm: Sessions 5A--5D. * 7A: Computational Linguistics 5: Lexical Systems Chair: Mary Dee Harris (SRA) - Arne Jonsson and Lars Ahrenberg, "Extensions of a Descriptor-based Tagging System into a Tool for the Generation of Unification-based Grammars" (Link"oping University, Sweden) - C. Rodriguez, Luis de Sopena, C. Valladares, C. Villar, "A Lexical data base for Spanish for Natural Language Applications" (IBM Madrid Scientific Center) - Yasuhito Tanaka and Sho Yoshida, "The Acquisition of Knowledge Data for Natural Languages: Word-to-Word Relationships Obtained by Analyzing Data Found in the Asahi Newspaper" (Himeji College and Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) * 7B. Music 1. Chair: Lelio Camilleri (Florence) - John Morehen, "The Latin Sacred Music of William Byrd (1543--1643): A Computer- Assisted Case Study in Musical Analysis" (University of Nottingham) - Francesco Giomi and Marco Ligabue, "A Tool for the Study of the Jazz Idiom" (Conservatorio di Musica L. Cherubini, Florence) - Alan A. Marsden, "Tools for the Musical Programmer" (University of Lancaster) * 7C: Textbases 3: Philosophical Texts (American Philosophical Association Special Session). Chair: David Owen (University of Arizona) - Brad Inwood, "Text Searching and Ancient Philosophy" (University of Toronto) - David Norton, "Text Searching and the History of Early Modern Philosophy" (McGill University) - Allen Renear, "Text Retrieval and Philosophy" (Brown University) * 7D: Poster Session 1: Literary Computing 5 - Waltraud Erika Bartscht, "Computer Analysis of Multiple Translations: An Alternative Method for Literary Interpretation" (University of Dallas) - Kenneth Blackwell and Albert C. Lewis, "Computerized Typesetting of Bertrand Russell" (McMaster University) - Joel D. Goldfield, "Evaluating Gobineau's Classical Vocabulary through Literary Computing" (Plymouth State College) - David Keane and Peter Gross, "Introduction to the Canadian Music Technology Centre" (Queen's University) - Stephen D. Reimer, "The Canon of John Lydgate" (University of Alberta) - Kenneth B. Steele, "The Letter was not nice but full of charge: Toward and Electronic Facsimile of Shakespeare" (University of Toronto) - David Tidswell and Craig Young, "Producing the Scottish Historical Population Atlas" (University of Edinburgh) - 3:00--3:30 pm: Coffee break - 3:30--5:00 pm: Sessions 8A--8D. * 8A: Literary Computing 6: Content Analysis Chair: TBA - Jules Duchastel, Louis-Claude Paquin "Valorisation d'une description syntaxique automatique: Analyse de la structure thematique des enonces du discours" (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) - Clifford W. Anderson, G. E. McMaster, "The Emotional Tone of Foreground Lines of Poetry in Relation to Background Lines" (Brandon University, Manitoba) - Christian Delcourt, "About the Statistical Analysis of Co-occurrences" (University of Liege) * 8B: Databases 2: History (Association for Computing and History Special Session). Chair: Deian Hopkin (University College of Wales). - Jose E. Igartua, "Computer-based Demographic and Historical Research in Quebec over the last two decades" (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) - Patricia Galloway and Clara Sue Kidwell, "Choctaw Land Claims in Mississippi: Management and Analysis of Heterogeneous Data" (Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, and University of California at Berkeley) - Deian Hopkin and Gregory S. Kealey, "Strikes in Wales and Canada, 1880-1930: A Comparative Database Project" (University College of Wales and Memorial University) * 8C: Panel on Scanning. Chair: Malcolm Brown (Stanford University). - Lou Burnard (Oxford University) - Terrence Erdt (Villanova University) - Bill Holmes (Director, Archival Research, U.S. National Archives) - Mark Olsen (ARTFL, University of Chicago) - Mel Smith (Brigham Young University) * 8D: Music 2. Chair: TBA - Lelio Camilleri, "Relationships among Computational Models in Music" (Conservatorio di Musica L. Cherubini, Florence) - Jim Kippen and Bernard Bel, "From Word- Processing to Automatic Knowledge Acquisition: A Pragmatic Application for Computers in Experimental Ethnomusicology" (Queen's University, Belfast, and GRTC, Marseille) - Helmut Schaffrath, "Automatic Retrieval and Analysis in Ethnomusicology: Some Relations between Performance, Encoding and Analysis of Traditional Music" (University of Essen) - 5:15--6:15 pm: ALLC General Meeting - 6:30--8:00 pm: Reception of the Italian Cultural Institute (organizers, speakers, and special guests) - 8:15-10:00 pm: Panel on Text Archives. Chair: Robert Kraft (University of Pennsylvania) 5. FRIDAY 9 JUNE - 8:15 am: Registration (Medical Sciences Building Lobby) - 9:00--10:20 am. Plenary Session: Humanities Computing in Europe 3: Methodologies in Literary and Historical Analysis. * 9:00--9:40 am. Chair: TBA Keynote speaker: Etienne Brunet, "La statistique lexicale" (Universite de Nice) * 9:40--10:20 am. Chair: TBA Keynote lecture: Manfred Thaller, "Historical Databases" (Max Planck Institut fuer Geschichte, Goettingen). - 10:20-10:45 am. Coffee break - 10:30-5:00 pm. Software Fair - 10:45--12:15 am: Breakout Sessions 9A-9D - 9A: Textbases 3: Research Tools for French. Chair: T. R. Wooldridge (University of Toronto) * Karin Flikeid, "Techniques of Textual and Quantitative Analysis in a Corpus-based Sociolinguistic Study of Acadian French" (St. Mary's University, Halifax) * F. W. Langley, "SPSS as a Lexicographical Tool" (Old French dictionary) (University of Hull) * Jacques Dendien, "Les bases textuelles" (INaLF, Nancy) - 9B: The American Philological Association Chair: Jocelyn Penny Small (US Center of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Rutgers University) * Elli Mylonas, "Strategies for Building a Large Scholarly Database" (Perseus Project, Harvard University) * Carolyn G. Koehler and Philippa M. W. Matheson, "Amphoras: A Database on Ancient Wine Jars" (University of Maryland, University of Toronto) * Jocelyn Penny Small, "Enhanced Retrieval with Classification Modules" (US Center of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Rutgers University) - 9C: Content Analysis. Special Session for the Society for Conceptual and Content Analysis by Computer (SCCAC). Chair: Klaus M. Schmidt (Bowling Green State University). * Peter Mohler, "Literary Text Classification: Content Analysis and the Computer" (Zentrum fuer Umfragen Methoden & Analysen, Mannheim) * Klaus M. Schmidt, "A Database System for the Conceptual Dictionary on MHG Epic Poetry" (Bowling Green State University) * TBA - 9D: Databases 3 Chair: TBA * R. F. Colson, "HIDES (Historical Documents Expert System)" (University of Southampton) * Anne Gilmour-Bryson, "Courses in Humanities Computing" (University of Melbourne) * Gilbert K. Krulee and Brian Nielsen, "Intelligent Support Systems for the Reference Librarian" (Northwestern University) - 1:00--5:30 pm: Software Fair. - 2:00--3:30 pm: Sessions 10A--10D * 10A: Computational Linguistics 7: NLU Chair: TBA - Nick Cercone, Paul McFetridge, Gary Hall "An Unnatural Natural Language Interface" (Simon Fraser University) - Arthur Stutt, "A Tool for Argumentation in the Humanities which Integrates Artificial Intelligence Techniques with Hypertext" (The Open University) - Igor A. Mel'cuk and Alain Polguere, "Aspects of the Implementation of the Meaning-Text Model for English Text Generation" (University of Montreal) * 10B: Literary Computing 7: The French Novel Chair: Gunnel Engwall - Paul A. Fortier, "Vocabulary Structure in the First-person Narrative" (University of Manitoba) - Richard L. Frautschi, "La Problematique des axes de narration" (Pennsylvania State University) - Gregory Lessard and Agnes Whitfield, "The Study of Oral Elements in some Modern Quebecois Novels" (Queen's University) * 10C: Archaeology 3: AI Applications. Chair: Vanda Vitali (University of Toronto). - J. E. Doran, "Distributed AI Based Modelling of the Emergence of Social Complexity" (University of Essex) - Mythili Rao, Ashok Marathe, and Milind Vaishampayan, "AI in Planning an Archaeological Excavation" (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, and Deccan College, Pune) - Sebastian Rahtz and Brendan O'Flaherty, "A Resource-based Simulation: the Southampton- York Archaeological Simulation System" (University of Southampton) * 10D: Computer-Assisted Learning 2: Using Microcomputers to Teach History (American Historical Association Special Session) Chair: Janice L. Reiff Case Western (Reserve) - Marjorie Murphy, "Using Microcomputers to Teach History, as Part of a Topical Course" (Swarthmore College) - Janice L. Reiff, "Using Microcomputers to Teach History, as Part of the University Curriculum" (Case Western Reserve) - Nancy E. Fitch, "Using Microcomputers to Teach History, as Part of a Major" (California State University, Fullerton) - 3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break - 4:00--5:30 pm. Closing Plenary Session. Chair: Antonio Zampolli (Pisa) * 4:00--4:40 am. Bernard Quemada, "La lexicographie francaise et l'ordinateur" (CNRS, Paris) * 4:40--5:30 pm: Looking Ahead (Nancy Ide, President, ACH; Helmut Schanze, West Germany) - 6:30--7:30 pm: Closing reception (Hart House) - 7:30 pm: Banquet (Hart House) 6. SATURDAY 10 JUNE - Excursion to Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake. _________________________________________________________________ >9 SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES Course Course Name Instructor Enrol- Initial No. ment Class Limit 5.1. Advanced Function Workstations Norman Meyrowitz 100 June 5 2.2. CALL Robert Ariew 25 May 29 3.1. CJK Humanities Computing Kazuko Nakajima, 25 May 29 A. Oikawa, Liu Yongquan 8.2. Computer Tools in Translation Alan Melby 25 June 12 3.2 Desktop Publishing: Pagemaker Patricia Hood 10 May 29 7.1. Desktop Publishing: PageMaker Patricia Hood 10 June 12 9.3. Discourse Dynamics Pierre Maranda 25 June 12 4.2. HyperCard Geoffrey Rockwell 10 May 29 9.2. HyperCard Geoffrey Rockwell 10 June 12 2.1. Hypertext George Landow 25 May 29 1.1. Interactive Video TBA 20 May 29 9.1. Literary & Linguistic Computing Susan Hockey 25 June 12 4.1. Meeting Campus Needs Vicky A. Walsh 25 May 29 4.3. Meeting School Needs Ronald Ragsdale 25 May 29 8.3. Nota Bene Willard McCarty 20 June 12 7.3. Programming in SNOBOL4 Susan Hockey 25 June 12 8.1. Reader Response Elaine Nardocchio 25 June 12 7.2. Relational Database Paul Salotti 25 June 12 6.2. Scholarly Publishing Catherine Griffin 25 June 12 1.2. WordPerfect Martha Parrott 10 May 29 6.1. WordPerfect Martha Parrott 10 June 12 3.3. Writing Theory into Practice Helen Schwartz 25 May 29 1.3 Writing with Computer Support Earl Woodruff 25 May 29 & others WEEK 1: MONDAY 29 MAY to FRIDAY 2 JUNE. 8:45--10:45 am 1.1. Interactive Video. Instructor: to be announced. A practical introduction to the use of interactive video for instructional applications. 1.2. WordPerfect. Instructor: Martha Parrott, Computing Services, University of Toronto. An advanced introduction to the most popular word-processing program for academics, with special attention to its applications for college-level teachers and researchers in modern languages. 1.3. Writing with Computer Support in the Schools. Instructors: Earl Woodruff, Marlene Scardamalia, Claire Brett, Patricia Probert, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. An advanced course, from the point of view of cognitive science and educational theory, on what kind of learning environment will meet the needs of students for writing tools. After reviewing the theoretical background in which educational objectives are related to cognitive science, the course will turn to vocabulary development and explanation-driven inquiry. Students will use a prototype communal database throughout the course to take notes and will be encouraged to draw conclusions from this experiment. 11 am--1 pm 2.1. Hypertext. Instructor: Professor George Landow, Department of English, Brown University. An advanced introduction to existing hypertext systems and to short-term and long-term applications for them within both IBM and Apple technologies by the developer of Context32 for the IRIS Intermedia system. 2.2. Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Instructor: Robert Ariew, Dept. of French and Italian, Tucson, Arizona. An advanced introduction to how computers may be employed in the teaching of second languages. The following topics will be discussed during the course: the use of the computer in foreign-language classrooms, the attributes and limitations of CALL, criteria for evaluation of CALL, available authoring systems and authoring languages, use of an authoring system, and module design. Robert Ariew is the author of several software packages for the teaching of French and Spanish, and he has recently published a text for teaching first-year French. 2--4 pm 3.1. Humanities Computing in China, Japan, and Korea. Instructors: Professor Kazuko Nakajima, East Asian Studies, Toronto, Dr. Akifumi Oikawa (National Institute for Educational Research, Japan) and Professor Liu Yongquan (Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and Professor, Universitat Trier, BRD). An advanced introduction to applications in educational computing for CJK languages and to the associated specialized technology. Special attention will be given to implementing instructional programs in CJK in North American educational institutions. 3.2. Desktop Publishing: PageMaker. Instructor: Patricia Hood, Computing Services, University of Toronto. An advanced introduction to desktop publishing, page composition (text and graphics), and PageMaker, with special attention to that program's applications for college-level teachers and researchers. 3.3. Writing Theory into Practice with Computer Support. Instructor: Helen Schwartz, Department of English, IUPUI, Indianapolis. Research and experience suggest that simply making word processing available to students does not necessarily improve writing, nor does simply assigning the use of computer- assisted instructional programs. This seminar discusses ways to choose software and integrate it into instruction to support instructional goals for each participant's student population. Programs (for IBM, Macintosh, and Apple) include integrated packages, CAI, idea-processors, and evaluation delivery systems. 4:15--6:15 pm. 4.1. Meeting Campus Needs in Humanities Computing: Issues and Models. Instructor: Dr. Vicky A. Walsh, Director, Humanities Computing, UCLA. This course will present an overview of what is currently being done to support humanities computing. Examples of successful and not-so-successful support facilities at various institutions will be discussed to provide models for future directions with insights into what works where and why (or why not). Issues to be addressed include position within institution, internal structure of a humanities computing organization, reporting structures, funding, networking, staffing, vendor interaction, local software development, faculty access, student labs, selecting and acquiring equipment, and text archiving. Special attention will be paid to the problems of supporting and integrating instructional, research and administrative computing for faculty, students, and staff. 4.2. HyperCard. Instructor: Geoffrey Rockwell, Computing Services, University of Toronto. An advanced practical course in the structure of stacks, the techniques of browsing, and scripting. 4.3. Meeting School Needs in Humanities Computing: Issues and Models. Instructor: Ronald Ragsdale, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto. A detailed practical discussion of models for introducing computer technology into teaching in the schools, with special emphasis on infrastructure, networking, support staff, software, hardware, and historical databases. MONDAY JUNE 5 5.1. Advanced Function Workstations. Norman Meyrowitz, Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship, Brown University, Ronald Weissman, University of Maryland, and others, to be announced. This course/workshop will give an overview of state- of-the-art technology (both hardware and software), an account of the kinds of research and teaching applications will be best met by it, and a discussion of where we go from there by a major user and developer of software for these workstations, the Intermedia project. MONDAY 12 JUNE to FRIDAY 16 JUNE. 8:45--10:45 am 6.1. WordPerfect. Instructor: Martha Parrott, Computing Services, University of Toronto. 6.2. Scholarly Publishing. Instructor: Catherine Griffin, Oxford. An advanced course which considers the kinds of issues and problems that arise when scholars take publishing into their own hands. These problems range from questions of responsibility (who will do the proof-reading, editing, marketing etc) to those of design and typography. There are also the requirements found in scholarly texts such as use of exotic scripts, extended character sets, and the representation of various features of manuscripts for which the chosen system must cater. The course will have discussions of these questions, and also have practical sessions in which TeX will be taught. TeX is in many ways an ideal tool for academics, as it is widely available, there is a large body of expertise, and it is possible to achieve the fine handling of characters and space which is required. This course is based on the instructor's management of computer technology for the editing and typesetting of traditional scholarly volumes for Oxford University Press and other publishers. 11 am--1 pm 7.1. Desktop Publishing: PageMaker. Instructor: Patricia Hood, Computing Services, University of Toronto. 7.2. Relational Database for the Humanities Scholar. Instructor: Paul Salotti, Glasgow University. The humanities scholar is frequently confronted with the task of effectively managing a large body of textual and numeric data by computer. The design and implementation of a database is a fundamental way of enabling the scholar to make the fullest and most flexible use of data. Database design involves the two distinct, but intimately related, tasks of data analysis and functional analysis, the first to establish the data model, the second the process model. This short course will concentrate on the Entity-Attribute- Relationship technique of establishing a data model. For several reasons this course will concentrate on **relational** database systems. First, most modern dbms products are, and will continue to be, based on the theory of the relational model, employing SQL (Structured Query Language), which has been adopted by ANSI as a standard and is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of databases. The course will aim to cover the design, implementation and use of a relational database. Examples drawn from humanities of research will be used for the purpose of illustration and participants will be introduced to the SQL database language. 7.3. Programming in SNOBOL4. Instructor: Susan Hockey, Oxford University. An introduction to programming for the humanities using the all-purpose and popular language SNOBOL. This course has been designed specifically for non-numeric applications and is given regularly at Oxford University. It will concentrate first on the text handling and pattern matching operations which make SNOBOL so good for both routine tasks and research applications in the humanities. These include reformatting texts, data validation, preparing material for typesetting programs, collating texts, and alliteration and metrical analyses. The course will cover those elements of SNOBOL which are necessary to write effective programs. No previous programming experience will be assumed. Course text: Susan Hockey, SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities, Oxford University Press, 1985, available in paperback form. 2--4 pm 8.1. Computational Approaches to the Study of Reader Response. Instructor: Elaine Nardocchio, Department of French, McMaster University; and Teresa Snelgrove, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto. This course aims to show how the computer may be used to advance literary theory by studying how meaning and understanding are related to how we read and in what context we do so. It will have three parts. 1. An overview of theories of reader response to literature and current empirical studies of reader response from Umberto Eco to Jean- Claude Gardin. 2. A demonstration, using dramatic criticism as an example, and the program Theatre as a research tool, of how different individuals perceive and understand drama and how their level of consensus may be tested by applying the same critical model to the same text. 3. Teresa Snelgrove will review and demonstrate STRAP, a structural analysis program, with a view to stimulating discussion on new ways of studying, predicting, and simulating specific responses to literature. 8.2. Computer Tools in Translation. Instructor: Alan Melby, Department of Linguistics, Brigham Young University, and LinguaTech. The course will be based on the notion of the translator workstation as the integrating mechanism of computer tools in translation. After presenting a glimpse of translation theory and types of translation, a three-level design for a translation workstation will be argued for, and software components at each level will be described. Formats for glossaries will be explained, and students will be instructed in the use of glossary management software. Lab projects will include translating a text and building a glossary of terms not found in a desk dictionary. Reading assignments will be given from Technology as Translation Strategy and handouts. Students are asked to bring with them to Toronto a text to translate from or to English and either French, German, Spanish, or Italian. Lab work will be done on MS-DOS machines. The emphasis will not be on automatic machine translation but on tools for human translators, including word processing, telecommunications, and particularly terminology management. Sharing of glossaries, using the MicroMATER format, will be encouraged. The instructor's own software package, Mercury/Termex, will be used. 8.3. Nota Bene. Instructor: Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Toronto. An advanced introduction into the programmable word-processing and textbase system designed for multilingual research applications in the humanities and recommended by the Modern Language Association of America for Hebrew, Greek, and European languages. 4:15--6:15 pm. 9.1. Literary and Linguistic Computing. Instructor: Susan Hockey, Oxford. An introduction to the use of computers in literary and linguistic research. The course will cover the basic principles, concentrating on those areas which benefit most from the use of tools such as concordance and text retrieval programs which are readily available on microcomputers. Topics covered will include text preparation and encoding, types of concordances, lexical studies, simple syntactic and morphological analysis, stylistic analyses, the preparation of critical editions and alliteration and metrical studies. Case studies will show how programs such as Micro-OCP can best be used for particular applications. Participants will be encouraged to bring their own texts for discussion of possible problem areas. The course is based on the instructor's extensive experience of literary and linguistic computing. 9.2. HyperCard. Instructor: Geoffrey Rockwell, Computing Services, University of Toronto. 9.3. Discourse Dynamics: A Markovian Approach to Computerized Text Analysis and Text Generation. Instructor: Pierre Maranda, Anthropologie, Universit\'{e} Laval. After a short theoretical and methodological contextualization of the approach, a review of standard content analysis (lexicography), followed by thesaurus construction (the first step in semiography), and lastly the Markovian model of discourse dynamics, leading to probabilistic semiography, in each stage by means of DISCAN (``Discourse Analyzer''), under MS-DOS. TUESDAY JUNE 13 7:30 pm-10:00 pm Toward Computer-Assisted Semiotic Research in Figurative Language, Mythology, and Narratology: A Roundtable sponsored by the Toronto Semiotic Centre. Chairman: Paul Bouissac (Department of French, University of Toronto) Speakers: Marcello Danesi (Department of Italian, University of Toronto) Pierre Maranda (Laval University) Elaine Nardocchio (Department of French, McMaster University) William Winder (Department of French, University of Toronto) TBA _________________________________________________________________ >10 SUMMER SCHOOL FACULTY Robert A. Ariew, Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Arizona (Tucson), is the author of six books, many of them on French-language instruction, and of CAI lessons for Spanish and French. From 1985 to 1987 he served as Director of the Program in Computer Assisted Instruction, College of the Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University. He is a certified translator (French-English, English-French), a programmer, and the software editor for the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Catherine Griffin advises at Oxford and other British universities on all aspects of academic typesetting. Her special interest is exotic scripts and she has written several programs to typeset these, including one, in conjunction with the professor of Egyptology at Oxford, to typeset hieroglyphs. She is in general concerned with problems generated by the new technology when authors take a greater part in the production of their works and when their publishers are not sure how best to deal with this. She has taught typesetting, including courses on TeX and LaTeX, and has given a day-school in desk-top publishing. Currently she is engaged in determining just how far it is possible to go with desktop publishing to achieve academic typesetting of a professional level. She was a member of the group which, under the auspices of the British Academy, produced "Guidelines for Authors and Publishers", and is a committee member of the British Computer Society's Special Interest group on Electronic Publishing and of a similar group producing a booklet on typefaces for desktop publishing for the British Library. Susan Hockey is Fellow of St Cross College Oxford, teaches computing in the arts, and supervises computing in the arts facilities at Oxford University Computing Service. She has directed the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) project since 1978 to develop a machine-independent text analysis program for use on texts in any language and alphabet. Now she is directing a project to introduce computers into the undergraduate language and literature courses at Oxford and has recently been awarded a grant to set up a centre to support the use of computers in teaching literature and linguistic studies at British universities. She was a founder member of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and has been ALLC Chairman since 1984. She also belongs to the editorial committee of Literary and Linguistic Computing, to the Advisory Board for Humanities Computing Yearbook, and to the Steering Committee for the ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative. Her books are A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities (1980) and SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities (1985), and the Micro-OCP manual (1988). She is Co-director of the Toronto-Oxford Summer School. Patricia Hood is currently the Supervisor of Information Services at the University of Toronto Computing Services overseeing course development and the COMPUTERNEWS newsletter. She has designed and taught courses in word processing and desktop publishing for both the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh families of computers. Ian Lancashire, Professor of English, and Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto. He has published several books on computing in the humanities, including Computer Applications in English Studies (1983) and The Humanities Computing Yearbook (Oxford, 1988) with Willard McCarty, founded the centre for computing in the humanities in 1986 at Toronto by means of a three-year cooperative with IBM Canada Ltd. and developed, with Lidio Presutti, a text-analysis program for MS-DOS called Microcomputer Text-Analysis System (MTAS). His research focuses on medieval and Renaissance literature and drama and he is Co-Director of the Summer School, as well as local organizer for ALLC-ICCH89. George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art, Department of English, Brown University. Since 1984, he has been a member of the Institution for Research in Information and Scholarship that developed Intermedia at Brown. He supervised, edited, and partially wrote Context32, a body of hypermedia documents on this system used to support English courses ranging from introductory surveys to graduate seminars. He is currently the editor of The Continents of Knowledge, an expansion of the Brown hypermedia materials by contributors from several dozen institutions to include materials from all disciplines. He has published six books on Victorian and modern literature and art, recent essays on hypermedia, conceptions of texts, and literary criticism, and is currently editing a gathering of essays on hypertext and literature with Paul Delany. Pierre Maranda, Professeur chercheur, Departement d'Anthropologie, Universite Laval, Cit'e Universitaire, Quebec, is the author of fourteen books on folklore, anthropology, mythology, semiotics, automatic text reading, and discourse analysis. He has developed two programs for text analysis, MicroMot and, recently with Sylvie Nadeau, DISCAN, a mainframe program rewritten for MS-DOS that does classical content analysis (corpus processing, text search, contingency analysis, text-comparison, and thesaurus editing), and analysis using the Markovian model of discourse dynamics. He serves on the boards of the Centre d'ATO (Universit'e du Quebec `a Montreal), the Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e Linguistica (Urbino, Italy), Text (Amsterdam), and Anthropologie et Societes, and also as a Council Member on the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, did his doctoral work in the field of Milton studies, and is the creator of Humanist, co-author of The Humanities Computing Yearbook, and editor of Canadian Humanities Computing for the Canadian Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en science humaines. He has been an active proponent of Nota Bene since 1985. Alan Melby, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Brigham Young University, and Vice-President, LinguaTech International, a Utah corporation specializing in terminology management software and electronic dictionaries. His research, concerns compute tools for translators, and models of language and translation theory, has co-edited Linguistics and Philosophy (1985) and published many articles on speech synthesis, machine- assisted translation, terminology software, and translator workstations. His software package, Mercury/Termex, is widely used for dictionary management in translation work. Professor Melby is also a certified French-English translator and a computer programmer with experience in many languages. Norman Meyrowitz, Associate Director of Brown University's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), has directed the Institute's hypertext and multimedia research since he helped found the Institute in 1983. Recently, he has managed and been the principal architect of IRIS's Intermedia system, a networked, shared, multi-user hypermedia system for research and education. He has served on the program committees of a variety of conferences including Hypertext '87 and '89, OOPSLA '86 , '8, '88, and '89 and COIS '88. His major research interests are in component software, next generation "desktop" environments, hypermedia, compound documents, text processing, user-interface design, and object-oriented programming. In the past, he has designed one of the first UNIX-based window management systems, an object-oriented page-layout system, and object-oriented extensions to the C programming language. He has authored and co-authored many technical publications and several major IRIS proposals, and has given a wide variety of talks and lectures. Norman Meyrowitz is head of the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship at Brown University. Kazuko Nakajima, Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, has cooperative partnerships with IBM, Apple, and Xerox International for the development of instructional software. Elaine Nardocchio, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at McMaster University and the President of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines, has published articles about her computer-oriented research in Computers and the Humanities, Kodikas/Code and Semiotica and is the editor of the forthcoming book, Testing Reader Response. Akifumi Oikawa is Chief, Section for Learning Resources Information, at the Center for Educational Resources, National Institute for Educational Research, Tokyo. He has worked at the Science Information Processing Center of the University of Tsukuba and at the Research Libraries Group in the fields of on- line computer applications, computers in museums, and archaeological database systems. Martha Parrott, after a doctorate in Medieval Latin from the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies, worked on the Greek Index Project and then on the Rhymed Office Project, both of which apply computer technology to humanities research. For the past six years, she has been with University of Toronto Computing Services, writing technical documentation, editing UTCS' newsletter, and introducing academic staff and researchers to microcomputing. She has been teaching WordPerfect courses for two years, as well as a microcomputer concepts seminar and an introductory DOS course, which she designed. Dr. Parrott recently joined UTCS' Microcomputer Support Group as a consultant. Ronald G. Ragsdale has been at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education since 1966 and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Measurement, Evaluation, and Computer Applications. His primary interests are evaluating the impact of computers on the educational process. He has authored two books published by OISE Press, entitled Computers in the Schools: A Guide for Planning and Evaluation of Microcomputer Courseware. His most recent book, published by Praeger, is Permissible Computing in Education: Values, Assumptions, and Needs. Geoffrey Rockwell is a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, has worked as a Consultant for Apple Canada at Computing Services, and now belongs to the text and imaging group there. He has developed a bibliographical system with HyperCard and has both taught courses and given talks on HyperCard. Paul Salotti is Assistant Director of the Computing Service of the University of Glasgow, where he manages the Applications Software and User Services groups. He has worked for the UK computer manufacturer, ICL, on database interfaces, and for the Computing Service of Oxford University consulting and giving technical support for software such as Ingres, IDMS, Informix- SQL, Paradox and dBase. There he taught short courses on the use of Ingres, IDMS and micro database packages as well as a longer course on an 'Introduction to Data Management and Databases'. He is a member of the UK Universities' Database Working Party and has given papers and workshops on relational database technology in Italy, the United States, and England. Helen Schwartz, Professor, Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, is well-known for her Interactive Writing: Composing with a Word Processor (1985) and for her development of SEEN, a tutorial, a component for audience feedback, and an authoring system for IBM microcomputers that recently won a Distinguished Software award in national competition sponsored by EDUCOM and NCRIPTAL and that is forthcoming from Conduit. ORGANIZE, another set of interactive programs---comprising Approaches, Audience, Argument, and Development---is available from Wadsworth. She has published widely on computers and composition, software, running writing laboratories, and educational computing. Recently Professor Schwartz chaired the EDUCOM Software Initiative's Writing Panel reporting on Computers in Writing Instruction: Blueprint for Change. Teresa Snelgrove recently completed her doctorate on a structural analysis of the novels of George Eliot, during which she designed and developed Structural Analysis Program (STRAP) with Lidio Presutti. Dr. Snelgrove is Publications Editor of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines. Vicky A. Walsh obtained her doctorate in classical studies and archaeology at the University of Minnesota where she taught in computer science and ancient studies and managed the Humanities/Liberal Arts group in the computer center. Since 1987 Dr. Walsh has been director of the Humanities Computing Facility at UCLA, where she supervises 15-20 full and part-time staff, directs the operation of Macintosh and PS/2 microcomputer labs, supports departmental resources, and assists individual faculty members. She has published widely in the field of computer-aided archaeology and computers in the humanities and since 1982 has been editor of the ACH Newsletter. Ronald Weissman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland and assistant to the President on matters relating to campus computing. He has recently published a very widely read paper on advanced function workstations in Academic Computing. 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