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Subject: toc for Literary and Linguistic Computing 18-2
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (422)
Subject: new books
[3] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi (41)
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Hubert Dreyfus on Expertise
[4] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi (37)
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Notion of (dis)embodied Cyberspace
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:32:41 +0100
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Subject: toc for Literary and Linguistic Computing 18-2
Literary and Linguistic Computing -- Table of Contents Alert
A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing
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June 2003; Vol. 18, No. 2
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The Open Language Archives Community: An Infrastructure for Distributed
Archiving of Language Resources
Gary Simons and Steven Bird, pp. 117-128
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Charles Brockden Brown: Quantitative Analysis and Literary Interpretation
Larry L. Stewart, pp. 129-138
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New Philology and New Phylogeny: Aspects of a Critical Electronic Edition
of Wolfram's Parzival
Michael Stolz, pp. 139-150
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Witnessing Dickinson's Witnesses
Lara Vetter and Jarom McDonald, pp. 151-165
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Special Section: Reconceiving Text Analysis: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism
Stephen Ramsay, pp. 167-174
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Computer-Assisted Reading: Reconceiving Text Analysis
Stéfan Sinclair, pp. 175-184
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Finding a Middle Ground between 'Determinism` and 'Aesthetic
Indeterminacy`: a Model for Text Analysis Tools
John Bradley, pp. 185-207
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What is Text Analysis, Really?
Geoffrey Rockwell, pp. 209-219
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Thomas N. Corns, pp. 221-223
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:38:43 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
(1)
Content-Based Video Retrieval
A Database Perspective
by
Milan Petkovi?
Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Willem Jonker
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS -- 25
Recent advances in computing, communication, and data storage have led
to an increasing number of large digital libraries publicly available on
the Internet. In addition to alphanumeric data, other modalities,
including video play an important role in these libraries. Ordinary
techniques will not retrieve required information from the enormous mass
of data stored in digital video libraries. Instead of words, a video
retrieval system deals with collections of video records. Therefore, the
system is confronted with the problem of video understanding. The system
gathers key information from a video in order to allow users to query
semantics instead of raw video data or video features. Users expect
tools that automatically understand and manipulate the video content in
the same structured way as a traditional database manages numeric and
textual data. Consequently, content-based search and retrieval of video
data becomes a challenging and important problem. This book focuses
particularly on content-based video retrieval. After addressing basic
concepts and techniques in the field, Content-BasedVideo Retrieval: A
Database Perspective concentrates on the semantic gap problem, i.e., the
problem of inferring semantics from raw video data, as the main problem
of content-based video retrieval. This book identifies and proposes the
integrated use of three different techniques to bridge the semantic gap,
namely, spatio-temporal formalization methods, hidden Markov models, and
dynamic Bayesian networks. As the problem is approached from a database
perspective, the emphasis evolves from a database management system into
a video database management system. This system allows a user to
retrieve the desired video sequence among voluminous amounts of video
data in an efficient and semantically meaningful way. This book also
presents a modeling framework and a prototype of a content-based video
management system that integrates the three methods and provides
efficient, flexible, and scalable content-based video retrieval. The
proposed approach is validated in the domain of sport videos for which
some experimental results are presented. Content-Based Video Retrieval:
A Database Perspective is designed for a professional audience, composed
of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable
as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and
electrical engineering.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7617-7 Date: August 2003 Pages: 168 pp. EURO
90.00 / USD 100.00 / GBP 62.00
(2)
Trends in Logic
50 Years Studia Logica
edited by
Vincent F. Hendricks
Dept. of Philosophy and Science Studies, University of Roskilde, Denmark
Jacek Malinowski
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, The Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland
TRENDS IN LOGIC -- 21
In 1953, exactly 50 years ago to this day, the first volume of
StudiaLogica appeared under the auspices of The Philosophical Committee
of The Polish Academy of Sciences. Now, 5 decades later the present
volume is dedicated to a celebration of this 50th Anniversary of Studia
Logica. The volume features a series of papers by distinguished scholars
reflecting both the aim and scope of this journal for symbolic logic.
The Anniversary volume offers contributions from J. van Benthem, W.
Buszkowski, M.L. Dalla Chiara, M. Fitting, J.M. Font, R. Giuntini, R.
Goldblatt, V. Marra, D. Mundici, R. Leporini, S.P. Odintsov, H. Ono, G.
Priest, H. Wansing, V.R. Wojcicki and J. Zygmunt.
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Preface. 50 Years of Studia Logica: Editorial Introduction; V.F.Hendricks,
J. Malinowski. Polish Logic in Post-war Period; V.R.WF3jcicki, J. Zygmunt.
Fifty Years: Changes and Constants in Logic; J. van Benthem. Generalized
Matrices in Abstract Algebraic Logic; J.M. Font. Intensional Logic
Beyond First Order; M. Fitting. Questions of Canonicity; R. Goldblatt.
Lukasiewicz Logic and Chang's MV Algebras in Action; V. Marra, D.
Mundici. Substructural Logics and Residuated Lattices: an Introduction;
H. Ono. Quantum Computational Logics: A Survey; M.L. Dalla Chiara, R.
Giuntini, R. Leporini. Inconsistent Arithmetics: Issues Technical and
Philosophical; G.Priest. Inconsistency-tolerant Description Logic:
Motivation and Basic Systems; S.P. Odintsov, H. Wansing. Type Logics in
Grammar; W.Buszkowski.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1601-8 Date: September 2003 Pages: 392 pp.
EURO 135.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00
(3)
Formal Descriptions of Developing Systems
edited by
James Nation
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
Irina Trofimova
Collective Intelligence Lab, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
John D. Rand
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
William Sulis
Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Canada
NATO SCIENCE SERIES: II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry -- 121
A cutting-edge survey of formal methods directed specifically at dealing
with the deep mathematical problems engendered by the study of
developing systems, in particular dealing with developing phase spaces,
changing components, structures and functionalities, and the problem of
emergence. Several papers deal with the modelling of particular
experimental situations in population biology, economics and plant and
muscle developments in addition to purely theoretical approaches. Novel
approaches include differential inclusions and viability theory, growth
tensors, archetypal dynamics, ensembles with variable structures, and
complex system models. The papers represent the work of theoreticians
and experimental biologists, psychologists and economists. The areas
covered embrace complex systems, the development of artificial life,
mathematics, computer science, biology and psychology.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1567-4 Date: September 2003 Pages: 320 pp.
EURO 135.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00
Paperback ISBN: 1-4020-1568-2 Date: September 2003 Pages: 320 pp.
EURO 62.00 / USD 68.00 / GBP 43.00
(4)
Non-Projecting Words
A Case Study of Swedish Particles
by
Ida Toivonen
Dept. of Linguistics, University ofCanterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
STUDIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY -- 58
Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have
not previously been studied extensively, Non-Projecting Words: ACase
Study on Swedish Particles develops a theory of non-projecting words in
which particles are morphologically independent words that do not
project phrases. Particles have long constituted a puzzle for Germanic
syntax, as they exhibit properties of both morphological and syntactic
constructs. Although non-projecting words have appeared in the
literature before, it has gone largely unnoticed that such structures
violate the basic tenets of X-bar theory. This work identifies these
violations and develops a formally explicit revision of X-bar theory
that can accommodate the requisite "weak" projections. The resulting
theory, stated in terms of Lexical-Functional Grammar, also yields a
novel classification of clitics, and it sheds new light on a range of
recent theoretical proposals, including economy, multi-word
constructions, and the primitives of lexical semantics. At an abstract
level, we see that the modular, parallel-projection architecture of LFG
is essential to the description of a variety of otherwise recalcitrant
facts about non-projecting words.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1531-3 Date: September 2003 Pages: 256 pp.
EURO 97.00 / USD 107.00 / GBP 67.00
(5)
Molecular and Structural Archaeology: Cosmetic and Therapeutic Chemicals
edited by
Georges Tsoucaris
Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des MusE9es de France - C.N.R.S.,
Paris, France
Janusz Lipkowski
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa,
Poland
NATO SCIENCE SERIES: II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry -- 117
The book delineates the contours of molecular and structural archaeology
as an emergent interdisciplinary field based on structural analysis at
the molecular level and examines novel methodologies to reconstruct the
synthesis and long-term transformation of materials used in antiquity.
The focus of this volume is on cosmetic and therapeutic materials. As
such, it casts an entirely new light on the knowledge possessed by the
ancients, based on the complete identification of complex materials and
preparations found in closed vessels in ancient tombs. It appears that
as early as 2000 BCE the necessary technology was available to conduct
wet chemical synthesis of new compounds not known as natural products.
The materials as we analyze them today, of course, have their own prior
history, and disentangling the effects of extreme long-term storage
forms part of the puzzle, which may possibly be resolved by means of
simulation experiments.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-1498-8 Date: September 2003 Pages: 296 pp.
EURO 108.00 / USD 199.00 / GBP 75.00
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:40:39 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Hubert Dreyfus on Expertise
Dear Dr. McCarty,
In-relevance to the Dr. Hubert Dreyfus's reading of Phenomenology -I would
like to share a paper with humanist scholars. Recently, Dr. Evan Selinger
(The name of his supervisor is Prof. Don Ihde), Department of Philosophy,
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA and Dr. Robert Crease,
Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, have written a critique
of Dr. Dreyfus's Phenomenology of Skill Acquisition, as "Dreyfus on
expertise: The limits of phenomenological analysis." Their article is
published in the Continental Philosophy Review journal with issue 35 (3):
245-279, July 2002.
[In the] abstract, [authors say] Dreyfus's model of expert skill
acquisition is philosophically important because it shifts the focus on
expertise away from its social and technical externalization in STS, and
its relegation to the historical and psychological context of discovery in
the classical philosophy of science, to universal structures of embodied
cognition and affect. In doing so he explains why experts are not best
described as ideologues and why their authority is not exclusively based
on social networking. Moreover, by phenomenologically analyzing expertise
from a first person perspective, he reveals the limitations of, and
sometimes superficial treatment that comes from, investigating expertise
from a third person perspective. Thus, he [Hubert Dreyfus] shows that
expertise is a prime example of a subject that is essential to science but
can only be fully elaborated with the aid of phenomenological tools.
However, both Dreyfus's descriptive model and his normative claims are
flawed due to the lack of hermeneutical sensitivity. [Authors claim] He
[Hubert Dreyfus] assumes an expert's knowledge has crystallized out of
contextual sensitivity plus experience, and that an expert has shed,
during the training process, whatever prejudices, ideologies, hidden
agendas, or other forms of cultural embeddedness, that person might have
begun with. One would never imagine, from Dreyfus's account, that society
could possibly be endangered by experts, only how society's expectations
and actions could endanger experts. The stories of actual controversies
not only shows things do not work the way Dreyfus claims, but also that it
would be less salutary if they did. Such stories amount to counterexamples
to Dreyfus's normative claims, and point to serious shortcomings in his
arguments.
If any humanist scholar would like to read the full paper on Dreyfus's
critique as "Dreyfus on expertise: The limits of phenomenological
analysis" -Please free to send me an e-mail. Thank you in advance.
Best regards, Arun Tripathi
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Greetings humanist scholars,
Following two worthy quotes: "Virtual Reality is a literal enactment of Cartesian ontology, cocooning a person as an isolated subject within a field of sensations and claiming that everything is there, presented to the subject." (Richard Coyne: Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor, MIT Press, 1995)
"The possession of a body in space, itself part of the space to be apprehended, and that body capable of self-motion in counterplay with other bodies, is the precondition for a vision of the world." (Hans Jonas: The Phenomenon of Life, Uni. of Chicago Press, 1982)
..here are some points to question the necessity of (dis)embodiment in cyberspace..
The idea of "disembodied" is impossible in playing games (or in cyberspace) while it is essential phenomenon of embeddedness of human experience through the body in the world. One is always "in" one's body, even if one is in front of a computer screen and has the sense of soaring through a 3-dimensional virtual reality space. So, if organic body (a player or I) sitting (or playing games) there gets hungry or sleepy or dies, the "virtual" experience is going to be disturbed by state of "real" non-virtual (physical) body. In one sense is "embodied" in playing games even apart from the real organic body. If one enters a virtual reality games like the one Case enters in Neuromancer (science fiction written by William Gibson in 1984), one does have a "virtual" body that enters that space--flying, soaring, walking, turning, moving. But there is still a sense of a body, not the "real" body sitting in front of the screen, but a virtual body doing all sorts of things that maybe the meat in front of the computer can't do. So phenomenologically one has a body in playing games (or in cyberspace), though it's not the same body, phenomenologically, as the one sitting in front of the screen getting hungry or thirsty or sleepy. We don't experience "cyberspace" or "playing games" as really being "disembodied," but only as having different kinds of bodies--freer, more mobile, perhaps. But we still experience ourselves as embodied, moving in time and space, perceiving a world.
Thoughts and comments are most welcome.
Best Wishes, Yours Arun Tripathi --
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