4.0459 Responses: TACT, Tools, Greek, & Handwriting (5/97)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 6 Sep 90 17:57:28 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0459. Thursday, 6 Sep 1990.


(1) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 90 09:24:40 EDT (32 lines)
From: John Bradley <BRADLEY@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: TACT Distribution

(2) Date: Wed, 05 Sep 90 21:33:27 EDT (17 lines)
From: Frank Dane <FDANE@UGA>
Subject: Re: 4.0454 Contents of Humanists' Toolbox

(3) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 10:04 EET DST (10 lines)
From: Jouko Lindstedt <LINDSTEDT@cc.Helsinki.FI>
Subject: Humanist Discussion Group: Ancient Greek

(4) Date: 06 Sep 90 13:58:28 bst (15 lines)
From: D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: Morphology

(5) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 90 22:30 CDT (23 lines)
From: Michael Hancher <MH@UMNACVX.BITNET>
Subject: handwriting technology

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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 90 09:24:40 EDT
From: John Bradley <BRADLEY@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: TACT Distribution

In a recent Humanist note John Koontz mentioned TACT, but didn't have
the distribution address handy. Please allow me (as TACT developer) to
contribute it.

TACT is a shareware program for MS/PC-DOS (vers. 1.2) that assists
textual analysis by retrieving segments of text according to specified
word forms and by displaying the results in graphs, lists and tables.

Lidio Presutti and I are the developers (at University of Toronto) -- my
electronic mail address is (presumably) listed above. Copies of TACT
are available from:

TACT Distribution,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
Robarts Library, Room 14297A,
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A5,
Canada.
Attn: Elke Rudman.

You can also reach Elke electronically at CCH@UTOREPAS.BITNET.

Distribution is at at cost: $30 Can or $25 US.

Non-commercial users are welcome to distribute copies of the program
freely and without permission from the developers.

I'd be glad to answer questions about TACT. ... John Bradley
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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 90 21:33:27 EDT
From: Frank Dane <FDANE@UGA>
Subject: Re: 4.0454 Contents of Humanists' Toolbox

Guy Percival (and others) have mentioned "media damage" several times
in the past few months. Assuming what is meant is something other
than errant erasures of files, a product called Spinrite II should
be added to the list of tools in the box. Spinrite II does a low
level, NONDESTRUCTIVE format of any disk (except those manufactured
by Plus Development). It can be obtained from Gibson Research
Corporation, Laguna Hills, CA 92653 (USA). Spinrite prevents the
development of "bad sectors" that were once good (caused by alterations
in head alignment during use) by reformatting the disk and placing
existing data squarely under the head. It retails for less than
$100.00

Frank Dane
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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 10:04 EET DST
From: "Jouko Lindstedt, University of Helsinki" <LINDSTEDT@cc.Helsinki.FI>
Subject: Humanist Discussion Group: Ancient Greek

Since PC-KIMMO was mentioned as one possibility of doing rule-based
morphological analysis of Ancient Greek word-forms, I would like to
add that Martti Nyman from Helsinki has designed a set of so-called
two-level rules for Ancient Greek that can be used with PC-KIMMO.
His e-mail addresses: MANYMAN@cc.Helsinki.FI, MANYMAN@FINUH.BITNET.

--- Jouko Lindstedt, University of Helsinki
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Date: 06 Sep 90 13:58:28 bst
From: D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: Morphology

There are at least two systems for morphological tagging. One was
created by David Packard and recently revised at the University of
Manchester (UK) by G.C.Neal. One of the versions I have even offers
alternative tagging with an option to add your own tag if you wish.

Contact person: Gordon Neal (Dept. of Greek and Latin, Manchester Univ.)
mffgkgn@uk.ac.Manchester-Computing-Centre.CMS

but you need to reverse the domains after @ if mailing from USA

David Mealand (Edinburgh)
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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 90 22:30 CDT
From: Michael Hancher <MH@UMNACVX.BITNET>
Subject: handwriting technology

Since 1987 there has been a professional society devoted to the
interface between handwriting and computers: the International
Graphonomics Society (Society for the Science and Technology of
Handwriting and Other Graphic Skills). Information about the society
can be had from the president, Arnold Thomassen, Department of
Experimental Psychology, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, 6500 HE
Nijmegen, The Netherlands (THOMASSE@HNYKUN53.BITNET).

Recent publications include:

_Graphonomics: Contemporary Research in Handwriting_. Advances in
Psychology 37. Ed. Henry S. R. Kao, Gerard P. Van Galen, and Rumjahn
Hoosain. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1986.

_Computer Recognition and Human Production of Handwriting (Proceedings
of the Third International Symposium on Handwriting and Computer
Applications, Montreal, 20-23 July 1987)_. Ed. Rejean Plamondon, Ching
Y. Suen, and Marvin L. Simner. Singapore: World Scientific, 1989.