3.1239 early concordances; mainframe tools; love (90)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Fri, 30 Mar 90 23:17:58 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1239. Friday, 30 Mar 1990.


(1) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 90 14:09 MST (19 lines)
From: Eslinger@UNCAMULT.BITNET
Subject: Hebrew or Indian early concordances

(2) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 90 11:44:33 EST (34 lines)
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Re: 3.1234 queries (95) - Unix Based Text Management

(3) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 21:17:00 EST (11 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.1225 images of love, cont. (46)

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 90 14:09 MST
From: Eslinger@UNCAMULT.BITNET
Subject: Hebrew or Indian early concordances

The following & more on concordances of the Hebrew Bible may be found in
Abraham Even-Shoshan's _A New Concordance of the Bible_ (Jerusalem:
Kiryat Sefer, 1989), pp. VI-VIII:

First Christian concordance of Vulgate: Antonius De Padua (1195-1231).
8th-9th c.: rabbinic grammarians compile word lists (cf. E. Levita,
_Massoreth ha-Massoreth_ (ed. C.D. Ginsburg, repr. KTAV, New York,
1968). >First Christian concordance of Vulgate: Antonius De Padua
(1195-1231).>8th-9th c.: rabbinic grammarians compile word lists (cf.
E. Levita, >First Hebrew concordance (mid-15th c.) Isaac Nathan ben
Kalonymus (working in S. France) (based on revisions of a Christian
concordance traceable to the Dominican, Hugo de Sancto Caro (1244)).
>1621, Marius de Calasio (Franciscan monk) published rev. ed. of Isaac
Nathan's work. >1561, Eliahu ben Asher haLevi began work on his
concord.; 1st ed. finished in 1525.
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 90 11:44:33 EST
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Re: 3.1234 queries (95) - Unix Based Text Management

Subject: Basic tools on a mainframe

> ... purchase of compilers and software to be implemented on a Unix based
> mainframe for future use, by other people, for large text data base
> management, content analysis and possibly artificial intelligence ...

> Could someone give me some advice or reference in order to be able
> to suggest decent choices?

> Benoit Laplante

1. I suggest also posting the inquiry on USENET newsgroups comp.text and
sci.lang.

2. Contact VERITY, 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA, USA 94043,
415-960-7600 or BIM, Kwikstraat 4, B-3078 Everberg, Belgium,
(32) 2 759.59.25, for information on their TOPIC Full Text Search and
Retrieval System. This does retrieval based on exact or fuzzy matches
with patterns called "topics." It wouldn't do everything implied by
Mr. Laplante's description, but it looks ike it would handle retrieval
very nicely. I have no hands on experience with this software, but I
have seen brochures.

3. Actually, most of the interesting text processing software I know about
seems to be on PCs!

All recommendations are my own, and do reflect the opinions or information
of my employers.


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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 21:17:00 EST
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.1225 images of love, cont. (46)

VERYINTERESTING CONTEMPORARY APPROACH TO LOVE, FROM THE SOCIOPOLITICAL
PERSPECTIVE IS: Franceso Alberoni's FALLING IN LOVE, published
translation from the Ita lian, Random House 1983. Rather sensible and
toughminded book. I reviewed it th en, but have forgotten what I said,
although the (broadcast) reviewgot lots of letters and call-ins...the
radio reviewer in Los Angeles at 9 am got people in their cars in
traffic, with no hands free for jotting down the publishing detai ls.
Kessler here.