8.0313 Qs (Part 2): E-Lists; E-Texts; Cluster Analysis (5/89)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 17 Nov 1994 18:36:25 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0313. Thursday, 17 Nov 1994.


(1) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 15:29:45 -0500 (17 lines)
From: smurthwai%uhavax.dnet@ipgate.hartford.edu
Subject: Q: Lists dedicated to opera; catholic church

(2) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 14:07:00 EST (25 lines)
From: Dolors Folch <folch@upf.es>
Subject: None

(3) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 94 15:01+0000 (10 lines)
From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE
Subject: Old French E-Text wanted

(4) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 00:46:34 GMT (17 lines)
From: lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it (maurizio lana)
Subject: address for lost (?) lists

(5) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 11:55:11 -0600 (CST) (20 lines)
From: Barbara Diederichs <bdiederi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Subject: Query: Cluster Analysis

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 15:29:45 -0500
From: smurthwai%uhavax.dnet@ipgate.hartford.edu
Subject: Q: Lists dedicated to opera; catholic church

A student of mine is interested in learning what discussion lists exist that
deal with Opera and (not together!) the Catholic Church. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

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John Smurthwaite, Ph.D. University of Hartford
smurthwai@hartford.bitnet International Languages
smurthwai@uhavax.hartford.edu and Cultures
Phone:(203) 768-4317 200 Bloomfield Ave.
Home: (203) 726-9538 West Hartford, CT 06117
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 14:07:00 EST
From: Dolors Folch <folch@upf.es>
Subject: None

I'm the dean of the Faculty of Humanities of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in
Barcelona, Spain. Our undergraduate courses are interdisciplinary in the field
of humanities.
We'll have our first graduates in June 1996 and they are going to work in a
world which can provide an enormous amount of information - through Internet,
CDRoms, etc - which the faculty courses don't enable them to use. So, we are
thinking of starting a graduate course of computing, adapted to the needs of
humanists, and of internet facilities, which gives them access to the kind of
documentary information that a humanist will need to master in the very near
future. We don't want a strictly technical course, rather one specially
oriented to people who have already a general education in humanities and want
to get skills in new technologies and internet services in order to develop
their cultural capacities.
I think that many other universities will have started this kind of
postgraduate courses already and I'ld like to benefit from their experience in
the field. I'ld like to get in touch with anyone who has planned and done one
of those courses.
Thank you
Dolors Folch
folch@upf.es

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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 94 15:01+0000
From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE
Subject: Old French E-Text wanted

(See enclosed)
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A colleague of mine is looking for an electronic version of:
Anonymous, Le Roman de Thebes.
She would be grateful for any info.
Fritz Heberlein
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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 00:46:34 GMT
From: lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it (maurizio lana)
Subject: address for lost (?) lists

I wonder where the lists Classics and Contex did go.
I tried to subscribe to them but got error messages, and a search with =ABli=
st
global /classic=BB or =AB/contex=BB retrieved nothing.
Any help?
Please, if possible, CC: your answer directly to me.

Many many thanks to anyone.
Maurizio
Maurizio Lana - CISI Universita'di Torino
Via S. Ottavio 20, Torino - Italy
fax 39 11 8991648

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 11:55:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Barbara Diederichs <bdiederi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Subject: Query: Cluster Analysis

Please post on Humanist:
Does anybody here have experience with Cluster Analysis? I am working on
a paper about "Kafka, Propp and Statistics"--the question whether
narrative functions are stylistically marked in Kafka's stories. I
analysed repetition rates of phonemes and words, alliterations and
assonances, word and sentence length statistics etc. for each paragraph
in three Kafka stories and wanted to see whether paragraphs that
represent the same function cluster together. Working with "MacDendro", I
experimented with different methods to compute distances and hierarchies,
and the results were quite diverging. In fact, I could find a tree for
pretty much any point I could want to make. To do that and just pick the
one I like would certainly not be very 'scientific'. The other solution I
can see would be to discard the whole analysis because the results are
too inconsistent, but for some reason I am resisting that. Is this a
common problem with Cluster Analysis?
Thanks! Barbara Diederichs.