3.1079 classical lexica; humans and machines (68)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Tue, 20 Feb 90 22:46:56 EST
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
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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.
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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.]