4.0722 Qs: Dickinson etexts; Humans v. Computers ... (9/139)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 20 Nov 90 22:03:12 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0722. Tuesday, 20 Nov 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 11:42:31 EST (12 lines)
From: Paul Jones <pjones@mento.acs.unc.edu>
Subject: Looking for Emily Dickinson in machine readable form

(2) Date: Thu, 08 Nov 90 14:08:42 EST (18 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: the "people of God"?

(3) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 12:06 EDT (12 lines)
From: Diane Kovacs <LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu>
Subject: Correction To LIBREF-L Announcement

(4) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 8:59 GMT (8 lines)
From: PETERR@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: RE: 4.0698 Greek Fonts; Arabic Word Processing (5/96)

(5) Date: 13 NOV 90 17:07:01.75-GMT (21 lines)
From: TONY@FRPERP51
Subject: American Art Movements

(6) Date: 13 November 90, 12:08:57 EST (23 lines)
From: UOG00230@UOGUELPH
Subject: Computer v. Human Text Analysis

(7) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 15:27 EST (15 lines)
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@umtlvr.bitnet>
Subject: Testimony as discourse.

(8) Date: Fri, 09 Nov 90 19:49:11 EST (14 lines)
From: John Unsworth <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: dogs

(9) Date: 9 November 1990, 00:34:08 EST (16 lines)
From: Peg Kershenbaum T/L-863-7320 KERSH at YKTVMH
Subject: Query: Classical "facts"

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 11:42:31 EST
From: Paul Jones <pjones@mento.acs.unc.edu>
Subject: Looking for Emily Dickinson in machine readable form

I'm looking for the complete poems of Emily Dickinson in machine
readable form for a friend of mine in the UNC English Department.
Oxford may have the work available, but it's not listed in the list
(admittedly very old) list that I received from them.
Please reply to me at <pjones@mento.acs.unc.edu> and not to the list.

Thanks,
Paul
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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 90 14:08:42 EST
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: the "people of God"?

A retired colleague here is engaged in very wide-ranging research on
the political aspects of the "people of God". He is considering
everything from Greek and biblical sources to modern history, but
at the moment is particularly engaged with the 17th Century. He came
to me wanting to know about the TLG, so no one needs to point him to
that important source, but does anyone have other suggestions? He's
a novice in computing ("baby" is the way he charmingly put it), so alas
direct e-mail contact is not possible. Any suggestions that would
allow him to focus quickly, or as quickly as possible, on key sources
would be greatly appreciated.

I will be his interface to the electronic world, so please send
suggestions to me, but by way of Humanist please.
Yours, Willard McCarty
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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 12:06 EDT
From: Diane Kovacs <LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu>
Subject: Correction To LIBREF-L Announcement

Our listname changed between our planning and online stages from LIBREF
to LIBREF-L.

I apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused.

Diane K. Kovacs
for The Moderators of LIBREF-L

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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 8:59 GMT
From: PETERR@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: RE: 4.0698 Greek Fonts; Arabic Word Processing (5/96)

A cry from the heart. Why don't the people who keep sending messages
about greek fonts in Word Perfect start their own discussion group?

Peter Robinson
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Date: 13 NOV 90 17:07:01.75-GMT
From: TONY@FRPERP51
Subject: American Art Movements

I recently posted a help request for bibliographical material pertaining
to American art movements since 1945, on behalf of colleagues preparing
a French competitive exam. Owing to the swapping of accounts between two
machines on the local cluster, we suffered a network blackout at a most
unfortunate moment: consequently any material sent to me was dispatched
to the virtual dustbin! I know that my message to HUMANIST managed to
leave Perpignan, as I have subsequently received queries from Japan
concerning corpora of advertising copy. Anybody who did send material
must think me very rude for not having replied. All I can say is that
I'm sorry about all this and could they please try again. The same
applies to the MOMA catalogue, if I had any takers.
Cheers,
Tony
Tony Jappy
Universite de Perpignan,
66025 PERTPIGNAN Cedex,
France
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Date: 13 November 90, 12:08:57 EST
From: UOG00230@UOGUELPH
Subject: Computer v. Human Text Analysis

Hello all Humanist recipients:

I am currently working on a thesis comparing computer analysis to human
an.I need a sample text to be used as the subject of my analysis for my
computerand myself to share. I would like to be the following: A work
of Canadian literature of substantial amount (a book) Something whose
centre can be pulled apart, and whose plot can be deconstrcuted
Something available for machine readable format. If anyone knows of
such a text, or has any suggestions, I would appreciate hearing from you.

Also I plan to work on the analysis on the following matter: -
authorship attribution - collocation - concordance systems - content
analysis - frequncy analysis - structural analysis - stylistic analysis
- text complexity and - text encoding. If anyone know of any other ways
of analysis that I have not listed, I would equally appreciate hearing
from you as well.

Thanking everyone in advance,
Steven Weisberg, University of Guelph, Canada
(uog00230@vm.uoguelph.ca)
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 15:27 EST
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@umtlvr.bitnet>
Subject: Testimony as discourse.

A non HUMANIST friend of mine is working on a Ph.D. dealing with the
analysis of the discourse of dying people (people with aids, with cancer
and old people). She wanted to know if anybody had references to
articles or books on the analysis of testimony as a discursive genre?

Thanks.

Michel Lenoble
Litterature Comparee
E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca
P.S. THERE IS AN UNEXPECTED M AT THE END OF MY USERNAME. DON'T FORGET IT.
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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 90 19:49:11 EST
From: John Unsworth <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: dogs

For an admittedly trivial project, I'd appreciate receiving brief & pithy
quotations concerning dogs: here are a couple of examples.

"The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs"
--Ernest Hemingway, _The Sun Also Rises_

"What is the meaning of a dead dog?"
--James Fenimore Cooper, _The Pioneers_

John Unsworth
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Date: 9 November 1990, 00:34:08 EST
From: Peg Kershenbaum T/L-863-7320 KERSH at YKTVMH
Subject: Query: Classical "facts"

Does anyone have information on the source and/or truth of the following
three statements: the face of the Sphinx was shot off at Napoleon's
orders because it was negroid in appearance; until recently, Americans
entering diplomatic service were required to read Thucydides; after the
battle of Plataea in 479 a vow was made never to rebuild the Athenian
acropolis, recently burned by Persians (Pericles' subsequent rebuilding
of the area thus caused Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian War).
These stumpers were asserted by three different undergrads with great
confidence and no citations. What are the facts? How did you know?

Thanks!
---Peg