[1] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (94)
Subject: "Web Usability": IJHCS special issue now on Web
[2] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (14)
Subject: economics and technology
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> (66)
Subject: ELRA new resource
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:09:35 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: "Web Usability": IJHCS special issue now on Web
>X->Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:05:56 +0100
>Reply-To: Simon Buckingham Shum <S.Buckingham.Shum@OPEN.AC.UK>
>Sender: Electronic Journal Publishing List <VPIEJ-L@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
>From: Simon Buckingham Shum <S.Buckingham.Shum@OPEN.AC.UK>
>>X-To: lis-elib@mailbase.ac.uk, hyperjournal-forum@mailbase.ac.uk
>To: VPIEJ-L@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU
>
>Dear E-Journal Colleague,
>
>I'm copying this to you since you may be interested to see how we've
>designed this experimental special journal issue to increase the
>interactivity (i) of articles, with demonstrations of systems embedded in
>some of them, and (ii) between authors and readers, through an integrated
>reading and commenting environment.
>
>Regards,
>
>Simon Buckingham Shum
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, July 1997
>
>Special Issue on World Wide Web Usability
>
>http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/ijhcs/webusability
>
>
>The July issue of IJHCS brings together seven articles providing detailed
>treatment of Web-based interaction from the user's perspective, with
>particular emphasis on learning from over a decade's hypermedia research
>before the Web, and on adapting current user-centred design methods and
>tools to the Web.
>
>This special issue provides readers with the articles in HTML and Adobe
>Acrobat format, interactive demonstrations of systems described in the
>articles, and commentary/discussion facilities tightly integrated with the
>articles.
>
>We invite the Web community to read, try demonstrations, comment and debate
>with the authors and other readers, add new links, and feed back to the
>journal on this experiment in e-journal publishing.
>
> _________________________________________
>
>International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 47(1), 1-222
>
>
>Buckingham Shum, S. and McKnight, C. World Wide Web usability:
>introduction to this special issue (hc970132)
>
> * Working with this special issue on the web
>
>Shneiderman, B. Designing information-abundant web sites: issues and
>recommendations (hc970127)
>
>Bieber, M., Vitali, F., Ashman, H., Balasubramanian, V. and
>Oinas-Kukkonen, H. Fourth generation hypermedia: some missing links
>for the World Wide Web (hc970130)
>
>Smith, P.A., Newman, I.A. and Parks, L.M. Virtual hierarchies and
>virtual networks: some lessons from hypermedia usability research
>applied to the World Wide Web (hc970128)
>
>Tauscher, L. and Greenberg, S. How people revisit web pages: empirical
>findings and implications for the design of history systems (hc970125)
>
>Thimbleby, H. Gentler: a tool for systematic web authoring (hc970131)
>
>Erskine, L.E., Carter-Tod, D.R.N. and Burton, J.K. Dialogical
>techniques for the design of web sites (hc970129)
>
>Benyon, Stone, D. and Woodroffe, M. Experience with developing
>multimedia courseware for the World Wide Web: the need for better
>tools and clear pedagogy (hc970126)
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>___________________________________________________
>Dr Simon Buckingham Shum, Knowledge Media Institute
>The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K.
>Tel: +44 1908 655723 (Msgs 653800) Fax: 653169
>WWW: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~simonb/
>Email: S.Buckingham.Shum@open.ac.uk
>___________________________________________________
>
>
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801
e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/>
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:10:53 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: economics and technology
Two useful URLs on the topic:
<http://www.finearts.com.au/journals/soc/eco11.htm>, about (alas, only
about) the journal, Economics of Innovation and New Technology. The managing
editor, Edward Steinmueller, is a good person to watch on this topic.
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/cict/>, Science Policy Research Unit, Centre
for Information and Communications Technologies, University of Sussex.
These I have of course incorporated into my list of resources, "Overview of
electronic publication",
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/overview.html>.
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801
e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/>
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:09:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: ELRA new resource
>> From: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr (Khalid Choukri)
>>
[ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ]
EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
ELRA News
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*** NEW CATALOGUE & NEW RESOURCES ***
ELRA is happy to announce the update of its catalogue
of Language resources for Language Engineering and Research.
It currently consists of:
1) Spoken resources: 39 databases in several languages (recordings
from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, phonetic
dictionaries, etc.).
2) Written resources:
* 14 monolingual and multilingual corpora
* 28 monolingual lexica
* Around 60 multilingual lexica
* A linguistic software platform and grammars development platform
3) Terminological resources: over 360 databases with a wide range of
domains and several languages (Catalan, Danish, English, French, German,
Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish).
We would like to inform you that a new resource (from ITC-IRST, Italy)
is now available via ELRA. A brief description is given herein:
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* ELRA-S0039 APASCI (ITC-IRST) *
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APASCI is an Italian acoustic database recorded in insulated room with a
Sennheiser MKH 416 T microphone. It includes ca. 16090 utterances and
digits, 58924 words (2191 different words), 641 minutes of speech.
The data is uttered by 100 Italian speakers (50 male and 50 female). Each
of them uttered 1 calibration sentence, 4 sentences having a wide
phonetic coverage, 15 or 20 sentences having a wide diphonic coverage.
Six speakers (3 male and 3 female) uttered 26 occurrences of the
calibration sentence, 104 sentences having a wide phonetic coverage,
390 sentences having a wide diphonic coverage.
54 of the speakers (42 male and 12 female) repeated 20 times 10
isolated digits.
The linguistic annotations of the database are given at the phonemic and
orthographic levels.
This database aims to design, train and evaluate continuous speech
recognition systems (speaker independent, speaker adaptive, speaker dependent,
multispeakers).
It is also designed for research on acoustic and linguistic models,
and for research on new acoustic parameters for speech recognition.
o Format: 16 bit linear
o Standard: NIST SPHERE
o Sampling rate: 16 kHz
o Medium: CD-ROM
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For more information, please contact:
ELRA/ELDA
87, Avenue d'Italie
75013 PARIS
Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00
Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88
E-mail: info-elra@calva.net
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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Khalid CHOUKRI
ELRA /ELDA
Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00
Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88
87, Avenue D'ITALIE, 75013 PARIS
Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr
Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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