[1] From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes@nyu.edu> (64)
Subject: Digital Collections: Preservation & Access, Fri., May
1 at 2 pm
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (84)
Subject: Kairos Best Webtext Award: Second Call For Nominations
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (53)
Subject: New Corpora from the Linguistic Data Consortium
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (57)
Subject: New Corpora from the Linguistic Data Consortium
[5] From: Andrew Hawke <ach@aber.ac.uk> (13)
Subject: Revised Welsh dictionary website
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:52:04 -0400
From: Lorna Hughes <lorna.hughes@nyu.edu>
Subject: Digital Collections: Preservation & Access, Fri., May 1 at 2 pm
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS:
Preservation and Access
in the Information Age
A special presentation in a
New York University series of colloquia
on computers and communications,
to be given by
John Price-Wilkin
Head, Digital Library Production Services,
University of Michigan
Friday, May 1 at 2 pm
Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall
(251 Mercer St. at 4th St.)
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New technologies are redefining the way scholarly information is archived,
published, and researched. At universities across the country, projects
for establishing network-accessible digital collections have sprung up.
Representing diverse disciplines and differing approaches to preservation
and access, they raise both opportunities and challenges for research and
teaching.
Our speaker heads a collaborative endeavor that is at the forefront in
setting standards for electronic archives across the disciplines, and in
exploring ways of integrating their management and access. Dr.
Price-Wilkin will describe how the Digital Library Production Services - a
joint venture of disciplinary, information services, and library groups at
the University of Michigan - has integrated diverse project-oriented
efforts by creating a general architecture for digital resources.
Dr. Price-Wilkin will focus on the development of the underlying campus
infrastructure and its critical role in supporting the success of
individual projects. He will touch on issues in preservation-quality
imaging, SGML and text encoding, automated OCR operation, and the
development and assessment of production-quality access.
The Making of America project will be featured as an example of a
successful merging of differing preservation and access models. A vast
collection of primary sources in U.S. social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction, the project illustrates one way of resolving
conflicts in digitization technique - text-encoded, page-imaged - so that
we can turn to the question of the long-term viability of our digital
collections.
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All faculty, staff, and students are welcome. We hope you'll be able to
join us.
This colloquium is co-sponsored by New York University's Academic Computing
Facility (ACF); the Faculty of Arts and Science; the Institute of Fine
Arts; the Program for Archival Management (FAS); the Commission for Arts
and Humanities in Education (School of Education); Computer Advocacy @ NYU;
and the Northeast Association for Computing in the Humanities, with support
from Apple Computer, Inc.
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Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU
Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070
Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120
New York University
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012-1185, USA
http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:11:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Kairos Best Webtext Award: Second Call For Nominations
>> From: Mick Doherty <doherm@rpi.edu>
KAIROS BEST WEBTEXT AWARD:
SECOND CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
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WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED
AT C&W CONFERENCE IN JUNE
***
Nominations for the second annual Kairos Best Webtext Award
will be accepted through the end of April.
The Kairos "Best Webtext Award" is intended to recognize
the most effective engagement of the medium in presenting useful
and innovative information to teachers of writing in native
webbed environments. The winner will be selected through
ballot by the editorial board and staff of the journal _Kairos:
A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_.
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
Kairos is a webbed journal sponsored by the national
Alliance for Computers and Writing, dedicated to exploring
all aspects of the pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertext
and other web-based technologies. Founded in August of 1995,
Kairos is designed to serve as a resource for teachers,
researchers, and tutors of writing, including: Technical
Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication,
Creative Writing, Composition, Literature and a wide variety
of humanities-based scholarship.
To be eligible for the award, the nominated webtext must
have been published during the calendar year 1997, and be
available free via the World-Wide Web. The staff of _Kairos_
recognizes that "published" on the WWW can mean many things,
and request that nominations include a brief statement defining
how the webtext was published -- in an online journal, for a
class syllabus, as part of a conference presentation or department
site, or any other venue.
Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. If you nominate
another author's work, please include electronic mail contact
information so the individual(s) can accept the nomination(s).
A brief description of why the piece is being nominated is
required; collateral materails such as testimonials and/or
reviews are welcome but not required. Please specifically
indicate the URL with which a user might be expected to start
reading/using/exploring the webbed environment.
Nominations should be sent via electronic mail (ASCII only
please, no attachments) to Kairos Editor Mick Doherty at
<mick@rpi.edu>, cc: to <mdoherty@dallascvb.com>.
The winner of last year's inaugural award was Karen McGrane Chauss
of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for her webtext "Reader as
User: Applying Interface Design Techniques to the Web," available
at http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/features/chauss/bridge.html
(We are anxious to point out that while the first winner was for
a webtext originally published in _Kairos_, this is neither a
requirement nor an advantage in the judging process for this year's
award.)
The award will be presented at the annual Computers & Writing Conference,
held this year from May 28-31 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Nominees need not be present at the conference to be considered for the
award (two of last year's three finalists, including the eventual winner,
sent their "virtual regrets"). The three finalists will be named on May 14
and informed via electronic mail.
The winner will receive a package of software and other materials
generously donated by publishers in the field of writing pedagogy,
a plaque, and a small cash award. The site will also be invited for
re-publication in a future issue of the journal, at the author(s)'
option.
Nota Bene: Many of you may note that the name of the award has
changed slightly since our original call for nominations. Discussion
with various members of the computers/writing/humanities
community have suggested that to use the term "Hypertext" is
inappropriate. It both ignores the fact that much of the very best
hypertext currently being developed is not available via the web,
and dismisses the fact that much of the technology-dependent
material on the web is not precisely "hypertextual." The award
has been retitled to reflect this; the parameters for selecting
the finalists and winner have not been affected, and in fact are
significantly more accurate now, given the change.
Mick Doherty, Editor & Publisher
on behalf of
Jason Cranford Teague, Production Manager
Claudine Keenan, Managing Editor
Greg Siering, Links Editor
Douglas Eyman, Coverweb Editor
Nick Carbone, Reviews Editor
Jennifer Bowie, Response Editor
James Inman, News Editor
Sandye Thompson, Chief Copy Editor
Jeff White, Archivist
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:14:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: New Corpora from the Linguistic Data Consortium
>> From: LDC Office <ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Announcing NEW RELEASES from the
Linguistic Data Consortium
1996 Broadcast News Training Speech Data
1996 Broadcast News Dev. and Eval. Data
1996 Broadcast News Transcripts
The 1996 Broadcast News Speech Corpus contains a total of 104
hours of broadcasts from ABC, CNN, and CSPAN television
networks and NPR and PRI radio networks with corresponding
transcripts. The primary motivation for this collection is to
provide training data for the DARPA "Hub-4" Project on
continuous speech recognition in the broadcast domain. The
speech files are available in a 19 disc training data set with
one additional disc of development data and an additional disc
of evaluation data. The following programs are represented in
this corpus:
ABC Nightline
ABC World Nightly News
ABC World News Tonight
CNN Early Edition
CNN Early Prime News
CNN Headline News
CNN Prime Time News
CNN The World Today
CSPAN Washington Journal
NPR All Things Considered
NPR Marketplace
Transcripts have been made of all recordings in this
publication, manually time aligned to the phrasal level,
annotated to identify boundaries between news stories, speaker
turn boundaries, and gender information about the speakers. The
released version of the transcripts is in SGML format, and
there is accompanying documentation, and an SGML DTD file,
included with the transcription release. The transcripts are
available via ftp.
Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders of the
news text, these corpora are available to 1997 and 1998 LDC
members only. Members who wish to receive these corpora MUST
SIGN BOTH THE USC AND THE NPR AGREEMENTS. These agreements are
available on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html.
If you would like to order a copy of these corpora, please
email your request to <ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>. If you need
additional information before placing your order, or would like
to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or
call (215) 898-0464.
Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can
be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at
URL:
Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu
under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your
login name, and give your email address when asked for
password.
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:15:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: New Corpora from the Linguistic Data Consortium
>> From: LDC Office <ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the
LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM
COMLEX English Syntax Lexicon, Version 3.0
This is a moderately broad coverage English lexicon (with about
38,000 lemmas) developed at New York University under LDC
sponsorship. It contains detailed information about the
syntactic characteristics of each lexical item, and is
particularly detailed in its treatment of subcategorization
(complement structures).
In the current dictionary, nouns have 9 possible features and 9
possible complements; adjectives have 7 features and 14
complements; verbs have 5 features and 92 complements; and
adverbs have 11 positional classes and 12 features. The entries
for 750 frequent verbs contain 100 tags each, where a tag
includes: a pointer to an instance of that verb in a corpus and
the subcategorization appropriate for that instance.
This latest version of COMLEX Syntax has been updated to
include the adverb classes. We also added diacritics to foreign
words, while retaining the unaccented versions and performed
various other updates to correct and supplement our lexical
entries. For more details about this revised version, please
contact Adam Meyers at New York University (meyers@cs.nyu.edu).
This release is accompanied by the COMLEX Syntax Text Corpus,
Version 2.0. The Text corpus consists of material from the
following sources:
The Brown Corpus, Francis, W. Nelson, 1964 Brown University,
Providence
Wall Street Journal Material, Copyright 1989 Dow
Jones, Inc.
San Jose Mercury News, Copyright 1991 San Jose Mercury News
Associated Press, Copyright 1988
Federal Register materials courtesy of IBM; formatted version
copyright 1992, University of Pennsylvania
Computer Library materials copyright owned by Ziff
Communications Company and other parties as their respective
interests may appear.
Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1998
Membership Year will be able to receive COMLEX Syntax Lexicon
3.0 at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other
text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Members who wish
to receive this corpus must sign the COMLEX user agreement.
This agreement is available on the Linguistic Data Consortium
WWW Home Page at URL
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html.
Nonmembers can receive a copy of COMLEX Syntax Lexicon 3.0 for
research purposes only for a fee of $1500. If you would like to
order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to
ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional information
before placing your order, or would like to inquire about
membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464.
Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can
be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at
URL http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/. Information is also available
via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access,
please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email
address when asked for password.
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:34:54 +0100
From: Andrew Hawke <ach@aber.ac.uk>
Subject: Revised Welsh dictionary website
The University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language now
has a completely revised website offering much more information
than before, including the full bibliography. Much use is made
of forms to collect information from readers. The address is
unchanged:
Andrew Hawke, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, NLW, Aberystwyth.
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Andrew Hawke ach@aber.ac.uk (01970) 627513 (+44) 1970 627513 (fx 627066)
Golygydd Cynorthwyol/Rheolwr Systemau Assistant Editor/Systems Manager
Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales Dictionary
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH, U.K.
URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/
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