4.0763 Rs: Amharic Translation; Ethnograph... (7/149)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 27 Nov 90 18:58:52 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0763. Tuesday, 27 Nov 1990.


(1) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 90 10:28 EST (15 lines)
From: "Dr. Joel Goldfield" <JOEL@DUKEMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Tr`es grande biblioth`eque?

(2) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 90 08:37:38 EST (11 lines)
From: Germaine Warkentin <WARKENT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Testimony as discursive genre

(3) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 11:10 EDT (16 lines)
From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U"
Subject: analysis of children's drawings?

(4) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 12:01 EET (34 lines)
From: "Markku Lonkila, p. 191 2707" <LONKILA@cc.Helsinki.FI>
Subject: Re: 4.0751 Qs: ... Ethnograph ...

(5) Date: Tue, 27 NOV 90 09:53:12 GMT (27 lines)
From: SA_RAE@vax.acs.open.ac.uk
Subject: RE: 4.0751 Qs: ... Ethnograph ...

(6) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 09:02:50 MST (24 lines)
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Re: 4.0743 Qs: ... Amharic Machine Translation; ...

(7) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 90 22:03:33 CST (22 lines)
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: computing environments ...

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 90 10:28 EST
From: "Dr. Joel Goldfield" <JOEL@DUKEMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Tr`es grande biblioth`eque?

Regarding "Debbie"'s query forwarded by Michael Hart, although
I hadn't heard of this specific project, I wonder if it may
have something to do with Mitterand's objective for the
Biblioth`eque de France of putting everything they can afford
to transfer to electronic form into such. I've just started
working with them in an exploratory stage and will let this
readership know. If anyone has more knowledgeable information
Biblioth`eque de France to put everything they can affordabout the TGB, I'd be i
nterested as well.
Regards,
Joel D. Goldfield
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 90 08:37:38 EST
From: Germaine Warkentin <WARKENT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Testimony as discursive genre

I suspect about 100 people will send messages to Michel Lenoble
suggesting he start with Natalie Zemon Davis, _Fiction in the Archives_
and its many reviews, etc., which gather together material in this
field. There is much more, I know, but this book is very influential.
It would be helpful for all of us if he posted the results of his query,
perhaps some time next week.
I certainly want to see them! Germaine.
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 11:10 EDT
From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U"
Subject: analysis of children's drawings?

In response to Willard's recent inquiry, I think I remember a discussion
in Rudolf Arnheim's _Art and Visual Perception_ of the trans-cultural
nature of children's drawings. Or maybe it was a discussion of how
children's early drawings are culture-bound. I read it many years ago,
before I began to learn a lot about a little. Either way, it should be
relevant to his colleague's concern. (The aphorists say that truth is
more likely to be found in error than in confusion, but I'm not sure
which this is.)

Ed <HARRIS@CTSTATEU.BITNET>
Southern Connecticut State U, New Haven, CT 06515 USA
Tel: 1 (203) 397-4322 / Fax: 1 (203) 397-4207
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 12:01 EET
From: "Markku Lonkila, p. 191 2707" <LONKILA@cc.Helsinki.FI>
Subject: Re: 4.0751 Qs: Parsing Greek; Ethnograph; AIX; GAHM (4/57)

Alan Groves asked about the Ethnograph. The inquiries and orders can be
addressed to:

Qualitative Research Marketing
73425 Hilltop Road
Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
phone: (619) 329-7026

You can also write directly to John Seidel, the author of the
Ethnograph. He has recently moved to Oregon and his new address is:

John Seidel
P.O.Box 2240
Corvallis, OR 97339
phone: (503) 754-1559

Since the Ethnograph seems to be one of the best-known software packages
for "qualitative analysis" (read: analysis of unstructured textual data
), I would be very interested in hearing if anybody has used it - or
similar programs. I have myself played both with the Ethnograph,
Qualpro, Textbase Alpha and quite a few more programs. I am planning
put these programs to serious test and I would be very interested in
exchanging information either through Humanist or personal e-mail.

Markku Lonkila
University of Helsinki, Finland
Dept. of Political Science
e-mail internet: lonkila@cc.helsinki.fi
bitnet: lonkila@finuh
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Date: Tue, 27 NOV 90 09:53:12 GMT
From: SA_RAE@vax.acs.open.ac.uk
Subject: RE: 4.0751 Qs: Parsing Greek; Ethnograph; AIX; GAHM (4/57)

> A colleague asked me if I had ever heard of a program called
> "Ethnograph". Does anyone have any info on where inquiries can be made?

THE ETHNOGRAPH is one of several microcomputer software packages for the
computer-assisted analysis of text distributed by:

Qualitative Research Management
73 - 425 Hilltop Road
Desert Hot Springs
CA 92240
USA
(619) 329-7026

Other packages include:
QUALPRO, TEXT ANALYSIS PACKAGE (TAP), TEXTBASE ALPHA (all, including THE
ETHNOGRAPH, for IBM and IBM compatibles) and HYPERQUAL (for Mac Plus, SE
or II).

Prices approx $150 each plus shipping/handling, sales tax, etc.

Simon Rae. SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK (BITNET)
Research Adviser, Academic Computing Service, The Open University,
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 09:02:50 MST
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Re: 4.0743 Qs: ... Amharic Machine Translation; ...

The Summer Institute of Linguistics and its affiliate JAARS market
several inexpensive PC programs of use to translators. In particular,
JAARS distributes Fiesta, a system to support bible translation. It can
be configured to work with other sorts of texts. I believe that the
price is under $20.00. Both JAARS and the SIL International Bookstore
sell another packages, IT (Interlinear Text processor), for c. $70.00,
that supports automated glossing of texts with user intervention. In
either case the would be translator must supply his own glossing
dictionary, which IT can help him build, and his own font and keying
system. The SIL also supplies a font editor and keyboard redefinition
software with their book Laptop Publishing for the Linguist - an
approach based on MS Word, cost under $20.00. I should also mention
Shoebox, a lexicographer's and text analyst's database package from SIL,
price under $20.00.

The address of the SIL International Bookstore is:

7500 West Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236

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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 90 22:03:33 CST
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: computing environments; QuickVerse 2.0

Perhaps folk will be interested in learning that in response to my query
regarding campus computing environments (i.e., what choices, if any, do
faculty have regarding vendor) -- 100% of my kind respondants reported
from a "mixed" or "multi-vendor" computing environment. This means at
least a healthy mix of IBM/compatibles and Macs, and, occasionally,
other sorts of machines are provided and supported. While I'm not sure
that three responses count as a statistically signi- ficant sample, I am
grateful to all who took time to respond, and perhaps other HUMANIST
readers will find this at least interesting.

[...]

Charles Ess
Drury College