queries (110)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Tue, 25 Apr 89 22:41:11 EDT


Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 889. Tuesday, 25 Apr 1989.


(1) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 23:52:32 EDT (15 lines)
From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: software/hardware for the deaf

(2) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 08:30:45 EDT (9 lines)
From: David Megginson <MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: For Humanist: Is there a good parser for text bases?

(3) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 11:49:21 EDT (18 lines)
From: J.A.MacColl@VME.GLASGOW.AC.UK
Subject: Humanist-reading librarians

(4) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 09:44:36 CDT (20 lines)
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: Graduate programs in comp lit

(5) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 17:51 cdt (13 lines)
From: HANLY@UOFMCC
Subject: TWEP tests etc.

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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 23:52:32 EDT
From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: software/hardware for the deaf

Can someone help me out with information on software and hardware
to help the deaf or hard-of-hearing, including commercially available
or amateur interactive audio & video, interactive audio and computer-based
products?
We are looking for materials that aid users in learning to lip-read
German or English, understand American or German sign language, and produce
sounds intelligible to hearing persons. On the latter subject, applications
of hardware from Kay Elemetrics (Visipitch, etc.) or the like would be
appropriate. Do we have any HUMANISTs from Gallaudet College in Washington,
D.C. with this type of information?
Thanks for your help. --Joel D. Goldfield J_GOLDFI@UNHH
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 08:30:45 EDT
From: David Megginson <MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: For Humanist: Is there a good parser for text bases?

I was fascinated by the work of Tompa et alii at Waterloo in building
a database (the new OED) based on grammars and parsing rather than
fields and values. Does anyone know of a text analysis program for
micros which approaches text in this way? I am not interested in
word-counting or simple concordances. Thanks.
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 11:49:21 EDT
From: J.A.MacColl@VME.GLASGOW.AC.UK
Subject: Humanist-reading librarians

Any Humanist readers among the US academic library community? I'd be
interested to know how much use you make of Humanist, and whether there
are bulletin boards or electronic journals more suited to your needs.
Does ALANET serve the academic library community? In the UK, JANET
is beginning to be used by academic librarians, albeit slowly, and
not for a great amount of mail.
Anybody find the use of e-mail absolutely indispensable in the
performance of their library work? Do any services run exclusively
across it?
I am currently working on a Project involving libraries and JANET
here, and would be very interested to hear.
Please reply to J.A.MacColl@uk.ac.glasgow.vme

John MacColl
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 09:44:36 CDT
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: Graduate programs in comp lit

At the risk of sparking the electronic version of internecine warfare --
do any of you have some suggestions regarding graduate programs in
comparative literature?

We have an exceptional student (French and Literature double major;
she has won a national competition in French language and literature,
and she has received a Fulbright teaching fellowship for France for
next year) who is considering her options. Of course, our literature
folk have their suggestions to make -- but they omitted one program
I was aware of as having a good reputation in the mid-'70's.

My thanks in advance -- and continuing thanks, by the way, for the
many comments, some of them quite detailed, on humanities computing
centers: they have been extraordinarily helpful.

--Charles Ess
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 17:51 cdt
From: HANLY@UOFMCC
Subject: TWEP tests etc.

I would appreciate information from other universities
which require TWEP tests or similar literacy tests as
a condition of graduation. (TWEP = Test of Written English
Proficiency). The purpose of the TWEP test is to try to
ensure that any graduate in any area must be at least
minimally literate-in English. How do other institutions deal with
this problem? Opinion here seems to be divided as to
whether TWEP or similar tests are of any real value
Ken Hanly Brandon University