4.0695 Queries (8/165)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 7 Nov 90 11:20:12 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0695. Wednesday, 7 Nov 1990.
(1) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 10:48:00 EST (16 lines)
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: Death and loss of name
(2) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 18:30:53 EST (25 lines)
From: "R.J. Shroyer" <66_443@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Subject: logic programs
(3) Date: 05 Nov 90 17:03:16 gmt (17 lines)
From: David Mealand <D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk>
Subject: Cusum
(4) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 15:19 GMT (27 lines)
From: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Anyone care to pass on some info to this chap?
(5) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 13:47:11 est (37 lines)
From: Tom Horton <tom@cs.fau.edu>
Subject: Macs teaching literature
(6) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 08:34:14 -0500 (10 lines)
From: t2b@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Eugene Davis)
Subject: Victorian Discussion Group?
(7) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 90 19:25 EST (25 lines)
From: "Hardy M. Cook" <HMCOOK@BOE.TOWSON.EDU>
Subject: Information on "Voodoo" MACBETH
(8) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 90 13:51:36 PST (8 lines)
From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0619 Electronic Discussion Groups
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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 90 10:48:00 EST
From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu
Subject: Death and loss of name
A friend in France asked me the following to which I hope someone can
provide a better explanation than I ever would. Twice she found
references to the suggestion of the loss of one's name upon dying:
"whom the angels name Lenore, nameless here for evermore" _The Raven_
"There's a man going round, taking names" unidentified spiritual
She wonders if this loss is based on a general belief. Is it uniquely
American or also British?
MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 18:30:53 EST
From: "R.J. Shroyer" <66_443@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Subject: logic programs
I have an urgent need to know more about programs designed for
philosophy courses, especially courses in logic and rational
decision-making, in order to help our Philosophy Department design a
microcomputer lab for students and faculty researchers. Any and every
logic program would be of interest, but I'm particularly keen to learn
of existing, thriving philosophy labs to be used as models for our own.
Because the deadline for applying to an internal university fund is
almost upon us, I'm a bit panicked.
With thanks,
R. Shroyer,
Research Director,
Faculty of Arts,
University of Western Ontario.
(shroyer@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca)
R.J. Shroyer: Department of English,
The University of Western Ontario,
London, Canada N6A 3K7.
(519)-679-2111, ext. 5839 or 5834
Canada: Shroyer@uwovax.uwo.ca
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Date: 05 Nov 90 17:03:16 gmt
From: David Mealand <D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk>
Subject: Cusum
Someone here in Edinburgh is setting up some software to do cusum charts
for stylometric analysis. I have not worked on cusum as yet, but know
that there has been some debate on this - one of the criteria which has
been proposed is the plotting of two and three letter words against
sentences. Does anyone know of replies, critiques analyses of this kind
of work that would enable me as a critical but not unsympathetic reader
of stylometric arguments to find a wider spectrum of debate on this
issue. My main interest is in Greek literature, but I know that these
methods have been tried in English literature and would like some leads
on recent controversies there as I would be surprised if the method had
not provoked controversy.
David M.
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 15:19 GMT
Forwarded by: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: Anyone care to pass on some info to this chap?
Original Subject: Request for English grammar/style analysis software
Reply-To: ags@uk.co.gec-mrc (Gavin Spittlehouse)
... [eds.]
I am looking for software - preferably public domain - to analyse
English text, checking grammar and style of writting, etc. This
could be anything from very simple software checking for repeated
use of a word or phrase to a complete grammatical checker.
Please post your reply, or mail to me and I'll summarise to the net.
Thanks in advance.
-- Gavin.
"But then I would say that, wouldn't I ?" (Standard disclaimers apply)
Gavin Spittlehouse, Software Engineering Group, GEC Marconi Research Centre,
Chelmsford, Essex UK CM2 8HN. 0245 73331 x3216 ags%uk.co.mrc@uk.ac.ukc
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 13:47:11 est
From: Tom Horton <tom@cs.fau.edu>
Subject: Macs teaching literature
This is a request for brief descriptions of how English departments have
made use of Macintosh's in teaching literature courses. I know, I know
-- that's a pretty wide topic! Let me explain, and I think you'll get a
feel for how much info I need and at what level.
Our English department has a lab of about a dozen Macs which they now
use only for teaching freshman composition. I'm in the Computer Science
Dept., but I hooked up with the department chair, and together we set up
a text-retrieval exercise for her one of her grad courses.
Apparently her department is now discussing how to make more use of this
Mac lab, and her fellow faculty members have told her that they don't
see how they can use it in teaching literature courses. So, she's asked
me to come talk to all the faculty about this on Thursday (Nov. 8).
I am not a Mac person and I don't teach literature, so this is not so
easy for me. I know about big projects like the IRIS hypermedia project
at Brown, but that's probably not a practical suggestion in this
situation. So, if anyone out there has some success stories for
literature courses in the typical US literature curriculum, give me a
brief report. Send them to me directly and I'll summarize back to
Humanist. (Feel free to point me to articles, preferably in things like
CHum, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Academic Computing, etc.)
Thanks,
Tom
Dr. Thomas B. Horton
Department of Computer Science
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA
Phone: 407/367-2674 FAX: 407/367-2800
INTERNET: tom@cs.fau.edu BITNET: HortonT@fauvax
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 08:34:14 -0500
From: t2b@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Eugene Davis)
Subject: Victorian Discussion Group?
Does a British 19th-century or Victorian Discussion Group exist?
Is there one in the works those of us interested should know about?
If no to the above, I would be glad to hear from prospective users,
tabulate the results and report back in a month. Please use E-mail
to the above address or write me (English Department, Purdue University,
W. Lafayette IN 47907).
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Date: Sun, 4 Nov 90 19:25 EST
From: "Hardy M. Cook" <HMCOOK@BOE.TOWSON.EDU>
Subject: Information on "Voodoo" MACBETH
A colleague of mine is researching the 1936 "Voodoo" *Macbeth*; he has
searched the Lincoln Center archives and is presently going through the
materials at the Fenwick Library at George Mason University. He is
particularly interested in the following:
* the reception of the production afforded by the New York
theatrical community;
* the comments of Orson Welles, the director, regarding the
above and his motive for casting blacks;
* the reactions of others to the production;
* possible revisions of original opinions by theatre critics
of the time; and
* governmental comments and reactions.
If anyone can help him, please contact me by e-mail (HMCOOK@BOE.TOWSON.EDU)
or write to Elliott Moffitt, Department of Humanities and Fine Arts, Bowie
State University, Bowie, Maryland 20715.
Thanks.
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Date: Sat, 3 Nov 90 13:51:36 PST
From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0619 Electronic Discussion Groups (4/92)
How does one get on the UNIX linguistics discussion group 'sci.ling'?
Thanks.
tom shannon, uc berkeley