Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/21/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1079. Tuesday, 20 Feb 1990. (1) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 09:46:00 EST (29 lines) From: DJT18@hull.ac.uk Subject: format for computerized classical lexica (2) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 17:03 EST (13 lines) From: <EDHARRIS@CTSTATEU> Subject: Humans and machines (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 09:46:00 EST From: DJT18@hull.ac.uk Subject: format for computerized classical lexica Preliminary Notice The Electronic Scholiast A Conference to Develop a Standard International Format for Computerized Classical Lexica to be held in July, 1991 at the University of Leeds, UK The conference will bring together scholars from different countries who are actively involved in developing computerized dictionaries of Greek and Latin and those who are developing uses for such dictionaries in automated lemmatizers, parsers, translation aids and intelligent tutors. The conferees will identify and coordinate the needs and possibilities faced both by developers and the reports of the Text Encoding Initiative, (especially those on lexical structure and the encoding of dictionaries) to Greek and Latin. For more information or if you are interested in participating, please contact either Prof Francis Cairns, The School of Classics, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England, tel 0532 333538; of Prof Daniel McCaffrey, Classics Department, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA 23005, USA tel 804 752-7276. (2) --------------------------------------------------------------19---- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 17:03 EST From: <EDHARRIS@CTSTATEU> Subject: Humans and machines There is a very nice article in today's (2.20.90) NY Times, p. C9, "Putting Disabled in Touch," by Peter Lewis. He lists a number of sources for information on computer assistance for the disabled. Although I still don't have the list of the hard- and software we are using in our assistive technology lab that John Slatin asked for (though I've requested it), I wanted to mention this article quickly so that those for whom a day-old Times is a scarce item might still have a chance to find one. (There's also a terrific article on culture and anthropology on page 1 of section C.) --Ed. Harris [Note also, in the Sunday NY Times Review of Books, section 7, page 1, Bill Holm's account of teaching literature, "In China, Loving Lady Chatterly". Inspirational, even if the path to inspiration leads from dispair and back. --W.M.]