5.0144 Humanities Computing Yearbook (1/275)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 13 Jun 91 17:27:24 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0144. Thursday, 13 Jun 1991.
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 09:36:34 -0400
From: ian@epas.utoronto.ca (Ian Lancashire)
Subject: Humanities Computing Yearbook '89-90
I am pleased to report that `The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90:
A Comprehensive Guide to Software and other Resources' is published
today, June 13, in the United Kingdom by Clarendon Press for 60 pounds.
Oxford University Press (New York) will be publish it shortly in the
United States.
The book, about 720 pp., has contributions from an Advisory Board of 31
members worldwide and is divided into 29 sections under Disciplines,
Methods and Tools, and Resources. A table of contents appears at the
end of this note.
I would like to express special thanks to Angela Blackburn and her
assistant Frances Morphy at Oxford for their faith in this volume and
for seeing it through the Press without delay once it was completed.
Plans are now being made for future volumes, as well as for possible
supplementary collections of essays.
Ian Lancashire, Editor
Dept. of English
University of Toronto
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The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90: A Comprehensive Guide
to Software and other Resources. Ian Lancashire. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1991. xviii, 701.
DISCIPLINES
1. Archaeology (Sebastian Rahtz & Editor)
2. Art History (Michael Greenhalgh & Editor)
3. Biblical Studies (Editor, with Robert Kraft)
4. Computational Linguistics (Editor and Nancy Ide)
Grammar Development Systems
Machine Translation
Morphological and Syntactic Analysis
Question-Answering Systems
Semantic Analysis and World Knowledge
Text and Discourse Analysis
Text Generation (comp. Gordon Tucker)
5. Creative Writing
Artificial Conversation
Fiction Generators
Interactive Fiction and Film
Poetry Generators
6. Dance
7. Drama
8. English Language Instruction (Donald Ross, Jr., & Editor
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Tools for Composition
Word Processing and the Teaching of Composition
Style, Grammar and Usage Checkers and Tutors
9. Folklore Studies
10. Historical Studies (Daniel Greenstein & Editor)
The Ancient World
Australia
Austria
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Medieval History
The Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
USSR
11. Law (Patricia Harris and Peter D. Junger)
General
Legal Databases and Retrieval
Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
Legal Expert Systems
Other Computational Applications
Law as Constraint on Humanities Computing
12. Lexicography (Editor, assisted by Nicoletta Calzolari)
13. Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Dialectology and Dialectometry
Modelling
Phonemic and Phonetic Transcription
Speech Analysis
Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech
14. Musicology (Lelio Camilleri and Eleanor Selfridge-Field)
Music Analysis and Theory
Music Perception, Cognition and Performance Studies
15. Natural Languages and Literatures
African Languages
Altaic
Mongolian
Turkish
Amerindian Languages
Armenian
Austronesian Languages
Malayo-Polynesian
Baltic
Latvian
Celtic Languages (Andrew Hawke)
Breton
Cornish
Irish
Scottish Gaelic
Welsh
Classical Languages (Editor, assisted by Andrea Bozzi,
Anna Paci & Brad Inwood)
Greek
Latin
Dutch
East Asian Languages
Chinese (Tien Chi Chen, Paul C. Kwong,
Tze-wan Kwan & Editor)
Japanese (Mari Nagase & Editor)
Korean
Tibetan
English
Old English
Medieval
Renaissance
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Esperanto
Etruscan (Ephraim Nissan)
Finno-Ugric
Estonian
Finnish
Hungarian
Lappish
French (Editor, assisted by Robert Gauthier)
German (intro. by Randall L. Jones)
Greek (Modern)
Iranian
Kurdish
Pahlavi
Persian
Italian (intro. by Nicoletta Calzolari)
Medieval Literature
Provencal
Rumanian
Scandinavian Languages (Kristin Natvig and Espen Ore)
Danish
Frisian
Icelandic
Norwegian
Swedish
Semitic
Akkadian/Sumerian
Amorite
Ancient Egyptian
Arabic (Everhard Ditters & Editor)
Coptic
Hebrew (Editor and Ephraim Nissan)
Slavic Languages (David Birnbaum and Harry Gaylord)
Sources
General
Bulgarian
Early Slavic Languages
East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian)
Languages of Czechoslovakia
Languages of Yugoslavia
Polish
Software
South Asian Languages
Hindi
Pali
Sanskrit
Urdu
Spanish and Portuguese (Estelle Irizarry)
16. Philosophy (Leslie Burkholder)
Instructional Computing
Research Uses of Computing
Online Resources
Machine-Readable Texts
Computing as a Subject of Study
METHODS AND TOOLS
17. Bibliographic Databases: Online and CD-ROM (Anita Lowry)
Database Directories
Bibliography
Vendors
Online Databases
CD-ROM Databases
Front-End Software
18. Editing and Publishing (Editor and John J. Hughes)
Bibliographies
Character Sets and Fonts
Collation, Stemmatics and Textual Editing
Desktop Publishing and Typesetting Systems
Indexing
Text Restoration
Word Processing Tools and Utilities
19. Information Management (Lou Burnard & Editor)
Database Design
Single Flatfile DBMS
Checklist of Relational Database Facilities
SQL Database Management Systems
Other Multi-File DBMS
Textbase Managers
Object-Oriented DBMS
The Notecard Metaphor
The Hypertext Metaphor
20. Programming Languages
APL
BASIC
C
FORTRAN
IBYX
Icon
LISP
Modula-2
Pascal
PROLOG
SNOBOL4
21. Second-Language Instruction (Editor, assisted by Frank Otto)
22. Statistics (Barron Brainerd and Editor)
23. Text Analysis (Barron Brainerd, Stephen R. Reimer & Editor)
Authorship Studies
Concordance Systems
Content Analysis
Lexical Counts
Prosodic Analysis
Protocol Analysis
Stylistic Analysis
Text Encoding and Enrichment (C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen)
24. Text Processing Techniques
Data Compression
Encryption
Filters and Transduction
Hashing
Keystroke Capture
N-gram Generators
Readability Indexes
Searching and Pattern Matching
Sorting
Spell-Checking
Text Comparison
Typescript Analysis
Word Games
RESOURCES
25. Bibliographies
General Serials
Lists of Hardware and Software
Software Repositories
26. Electronic Texts
Reference Works
Termbanks
Text and Data Archives
27. General Guides and History
History of Humanities Computing
Terminology and Jargon
28. OCR
29. People and Places
Associations
Computer-using Scholars in the Humanities
Computing Centres and Offices
General Conferences
Networking
Teaching Humanities Computing
Reference Bibliography
Index
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