3.514 analytic Macs (84)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Fri, 29 Sep 89 20:01:27 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 514. Friday, 29 Sep 1989.
(1) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 20:52:23 EDT (17 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.512 stylistic Macs? (55)
(2) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 11:46:25 EDT (17 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: stylistic Macs
(3) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 18:40:25 EDT (25 lines)
From: Geoff Rockwell <rockwell@utorgpu>
Subject: Re: 3.512 stylistic Macs? (55)
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 20:52:23 EDT
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.512 stylistic Macs? (55)
One of my colleagues, John Polt, has written a pascal
program for the Mac which analyzes the stress patterns
of Spanish verse (at 23,000 l. per hour on a Mac IIcx).
The real problem is getting the texts in machine-readable
form.
Charles B. Faulhaber
Department of Spanish
UC Berkeley CA 94720
bitnet: ked@ucbgarne
internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu
telephone: (415) 642-2107
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 11:46:25 EDT
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: stylistic Macs
In answer to Brian Whittaker's observation that most text analysis
programs run on DOS or Unix, not the Macintosh, it is true that programming
on the Macintosh is considerably more difficult than for other systems. It
is also true that the final results are superb. Furthermore, the expertise
needed is not nearly so much as might appear at first glance. An
alternative is to use hypercard which gives the programmer access to the
Macintosh interface with a minimum of effort, though there are limitations and
problems with hypercard and other such authoring systems.
I am currently working on a universal morphological parser for the
Macintosh which will fill some of the text analysis gaps on the Macintosh. I
expect to have a somewhat limited, but working version of this available by
Jan.1 and will post a notice on Humanist to that effect at that time. Anyone
who is interested will be able to play around with that program.
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 18:40:25 EDT
From: Geoff Rockwell <rockwell@utorgpu>
Subject: Re: 3.512 stylistic Macs? (55)
I have been bothering people at Apple about the need for better text tools
on the Mac. The only tool I know not on the list of Mr Whittaker is SONAR,
a very expensive text retrieval package designed for law firms with large
budgets and lots of correspondance. A friend who works for Apple suggestively
asked me for a list of things accademics would like to see in a text tool,
because, I suppose, he is consulting with someone who is about to release a
wham-dinger. I immediately said "cheap", at which point I got the Apple
blank look that they are trained to give when someone complains about the
cost of Mac computing. I hope to get more information about this forthcoming
product. (Could it be the Mac version of WordCruncher promised for January?)
On the same note - has anyone created XCMDs or XFCNs for HyperCard to index
text in HyperCard. I want to apply for help creating such resources and I do
not want to reinvent the wheel. Is Dartmouth, for example, hiding such goodies
from the resourceless few? My idea is a set of resources that would index
all the text in one or more background fields and return the locations of
indexed items later. Tex only indexes texts outside of HyperCard.
Yours
Geoffrey Rockwell
rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca