4.1146 Rs: E-Dictionaries; Greek Masks; Sentence Length (3/41)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 8 Mar 91 17:20:32 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1146. Friday, 8 Mar 1991.
(1) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 91 22:04:56 PDT (19 lines)
From: Nicholas Heer <heer@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Electronic Dictionary of Arabic
(2) Date: Fri, 08 Mar 91 08:44:31 EST (6 lines)
From: Clarence Brown <CB@PUCC>
Subject: greek masks
(3) Date: Fri, 08 Mar 91 06:46:47 CDT (16 lines)
From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" <ERIC@SDNET>
Subject: Sentence length
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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 91 22:04:56 PDT
From: Nicholas Heer <heer@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Electronic Dictionary of Arabic
I should like to add the following to the list of electronic
dictionaries:
Wilson B. Bishai, "Computer Dictionary of Literary Arabic,
Arabic-English." 2nd Edition. The Arabic Software Center, 434 William
St., Stoneham, MA 02180.
Both IBM and Macintosh versions exist. Professor Bishai teaches Arabic
at Harvard, and his dictionary has just been reviewed in the Journal of
the American Oriental Society, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1990).
Nicholas Heer
University of Washington
heer@u.washington.edu
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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 91 08:44:31 EST
From: Clarence Brown <CB@PUCC>
Subject: greek masks
I am not sure about the Greek, but in my school the mask of comedy was
called Mr. Rainwater and that of tragedy Mr. Spann.
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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 91 06:46:47 CDT
From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" <ERIC@SDNET>
Subject: Sentence length
After reading Jean Veronis' HUMANIST message about sentence length, I
wondered if I could duplicate her graph using texts by Conrad and others
that I had at hand. I found that I could produce similar results only
after I had rethought how a computer recognizes words and sentences (for
example, defining a sentence as anything ending with "?," "!," or "."
followed by two spaces will not always produce accurate results).
Perhaps a HUMANIST can tell me if discussions of how a computer can be
made to recognize words and sentences have been published.
-- Eric Johnson
ERIC@SDNET.BITNET