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Developing Linguistic Corpora: a guide to good practice
by James Cummings 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

-----forwarded message----- The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) has published a new Guide to Good Practice, 'Developing Linguistic Corpora'. It is edited by Martin Wynne from the Literature, Languages and Linguistics branch of the AHDS, which is hosted by the Oxford Text Archive. The printed book can be ordered online from Oxbow Books (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/) for £15 plus post and packing, and the full text is available for free online at http://ahds.ac.uk/linguistic-corpora/ In this volume, a selection of leading experts offer advice to help the reader to ensure that their corpus is well-designed and fit for the intended purpose. As John Sinclair writes in the first chapter: "A corpus is a remarkable thing, not so much because it is a collection of language text, but because of the properties that it acquires if it is well-designed and carefully-constructed." The collection includes the following chapters: * 'Corpus and text: basic principles' by John Sinclair * 'Adding linguistic annotation' by Geoffrey Leech * 'Metadata for corpus work' by Lou Burnard * 'Character encoding in corpus construction' by Tony McEnery and Richard Xiao * 'Spoken language corpora' by Paul Thompson * 'Archiving, distribution and preservation' by Martin Wynne John Sinclair sets out ten principles for corpus design, plus a new definition of a corpus. Geoffrey Leech offers a taxonomy of types of annotations as well as clear guidelines and some provisional standards for annotation at various linguistic levels. Lou Burnard explains the different types of metadata which can be provided for a corpus, and gives examples of how these can be implemented using the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. Tony McEnery and Richard Xiao take on the tricky issue of encoding characters in languages other than English, giving an historical overview of the various solutions, leading to a discussion of how to use Unicode today in encoding corpus texts. Paul Thompson draws on his experience in developing the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus to set out the stages involved in the development and exploitation of a corpus of speech, covering data collection, transcription, markup and annotation, and access. In chapter six, Martin Wynne explains how good planning and design can help to ensure the ongoing availability and usefulness of a corpus. This and other guides in the series are available from http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/ Alastair Alastair Dunning Arts and Humanities Data Service http://ahds.ac.uk/ King's College London 0207 848 1972

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CLiP 2006 - First call for papers and posters
by Paul Spence 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

* Apologies for cross-posting * =========================================================== CLiP 2006 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: 'Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world' Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, UK Thursday 29 June - Saturday 1 July 2006 http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ =========================================================== ABOUT CLiP The international Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference has taken place at a variety of European universities since the first conference in 1998. The initiative for the first seminar was taken by literary scholars who were not only aware of the importance of new technologies for the humanities, but also of what the humanities had contributed to the creation of digital culture in general and to the content of the Internet in particular. The discussions at CLiP conferences focus on the integration of Philology and Information Technology. In this context, 'Literature' and 'Philology' are to be understood in more general terms. 'Literature' means all sorts of texts (spoken, written, hypertext etc.), which may also contain images, sound materials, graphs etc. 'Philology' means the scholarship devoted to these texts from diverse perspectives. The theoretical and practical questions posed by the creation of digital materials and the integration of Philology and media technologies are debated. The implications for research and teaching are examined and current projects in the field are presented. This conference can best be seen as a three-day seminar, in that there are no parallel sessions, there is as coherent an academic focus as possible and the participation of young scholars is actively encouraged. One of the key objectives of CLiP is to open an independent humanities computing space specifically - although not exclusively - dedicated to the emerging humanities computing communities in the fields of study that are relevant to the Romance languages areas. CLiP conferences approach these issues from a multicultural European perspective and aim to foment international collaboration in research and teaching as a result. These discussions are part of the international debate about the discipline of Humanities Computing which is happening at the interface between the Humanities and Information Technology. The participants are also interested in the exchange of ideas, methods and techniques with scholars from outside Europe. CONFERENCE THEMES We welcome submissions that discuss any aspect of the interface between languages, literature, cultural heritage and Information Technology. Suitable topics for proposals might include: * literary and linguistic research including: * text encoding systems; * digital publishing; * digital editions; * digital philology; * text analysis; * text corpora; * linguistics, particularly corpus linguistics; * new media approaches to the field * multingualism and multiculturalism * access of cultural heritage in a multilingual environment; * theoretical and practical treatment of issues related to multilingualism and multiculturalism; * the development of standards/guidelines and generic digital approaches, particularly those appropriate to multilingual and multicultural contexts * education and training * the impact of computing on education and training from a multilingual and multicultural perspective; * the specific role of technology in languages * humanities computing as a field * critical evaluation of the role and impact of new technologies on the humanities and its wider social significance; * the role of humanities computing in fomenting interdisciplinarity; * international policies for humanities computing; * humanities computing from a global perspective SUBMISSION TYPES Submissions may be of two types: 1. Papers. Abstract submissions should be of 500-1000 words. The duration of each paper will be 20 minutes. Submissions are peer-reviewed. 2. Posters/demonstrations. These will consist of poster presentations or demonstrations of software and will also be peer-reviewed. They will typically be appropriate for those seeking to demonstrate current projects and other work in progress. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference in a central area to ensure maximum opportunity for feedback/discussion with other delegates. Proposals for posters/software demonstrations should be submitted as short abstracts of no more than 250 words. POSTER PRIZE A prize will be awarded to the best poster. BURSARIES We anticipate that a limited number of bursaries will be available for young scholars who have their paper or poster submission accepted. The deadlines for application for bursaries is January 30, 2006. LANGUAGE OF SUBMISSION Submissions may be in Spanish, Italian, German, French or English. LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION Presentations may be given in the language of the accepted abstract. If the language is not English we strongly recommend the use of slides in English to facilitate comprehension. If the language is English, we strongly recommend the use of slides in one of the other languages named above. DEADLINES The deadline for paper and poster submissions is December 8, 2005. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 27, 2006 MORE DETAILS The conference website is at: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ Please see website for versions of Call for papers in other languages.

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Re: [dm-l] procite database
by Paula Mae Carns 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

We are using RefWorks at the U of I and will be instructed in the product in the next few weeks. Once I figure it out, I'll send along a summary. Best, Paula Carns ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:38:46 -0600 >From: "Daniel Paul O'Donnell" <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> >Subject: Re: [dm-l] procite database >To: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list <dm- l(a)uleth.ca> > >On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 19:18 -0600, Jesse Hurlbut wrote: >> My university library has recently subscribed to a program called >> Refworks which is similar to ProCite and EndNote, but runs on line. I >> have only begun exploring its capabilities, but it claims to allow >> you to share your bibliography on-line once it is generated. If your >> institution doesn't have a subscription, individuals can sign up for >> US$100/year. >> >> www.refworks.com >> >> Is anyone else familiar with this product and its limitations? > >Wow. This looks interesting. Let me ask on the procite list (full of >dissatisfied librarians) and see if they know anything about it. Procite >was a great program abandoned by its new owners. > >-dan > >> >> Jesse >> jesse_hurlbut(a)byu.edu >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Digital Medievalist Project >> Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org >> Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm >> RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm >> Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php >> Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l >> Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm >> Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca >> dm-l mailing list >> dm-l(a)uleth.ca >> http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > >_______________________________________________ >Digital Medievalist Project >Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org >Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm >RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm >Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php >Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l >Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm >Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca >dm-l mailing list >dm-l(a)uleth.ca >http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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280th member
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi all, I've just approved our 280th member. Not bad. Of course if I let all the spam bots in that apply, we'd be up around 2800. -d

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RE: [dm-l] procite database
by maaij 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Dan, I would love to hear what the ProCiters have to say. I concur, by the way, with your note on ownership and customer service: the latter is completely non-existent. If I'd known, I wouldn't have bought the program. Michel Aaij UT, Knoxville >===== Original Message From daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca, Digital Medievalist > >Wow. This looks interesting. Let me ask on the procite list (full of >dissatisfied librarians) and see if they know anything about it. Procite >was a great program abandoned by its new owners. > >-dan Michel Aaij, Ph.D. University of Tennessee English Department 301 McClung Tower Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

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Re: [dm-l] procite database
by James Cummings 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

michel aaij wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I hope someone can help me out with a query; I hope this is the right > place to ask. A preliminary note: I'm computer literate but by no means > an expert on anything besides Minesweeper. > > I have been working on a bibliography of the good St. Boniface and am > using a program called ProCite. If it ever gets done it will be fully > annotated, but for now I wish to make my data accessible via the web. > Initially I thought that ProCite could do this for me, but it turns out > that it can only generate output as HTML, not make it searchable via the > internet. Can any of you tell me how I can do this? Better yet, can an > amateur like me do this? The database is fairly large--I believe I have > some 750 titles in it right now. Well, there are a variety of options. For example: 1)Depending on where and how your website is hosted, you could set up a database (e.g. mysql) and then some scripts of some sort (say PHP) to allow users to query the database. 2)You could plop it in an XML database (e.g. eXist) and design a basic XQuery to allow users to do a free-text search. (Or something more complicated). If you use this solution then exporting not as HTML, but as CSV or something and then converting that to more intricate XML would be a better way. 3)By far the easiest is to make your HTML attractive to a third-party search engine, and allow google to search and index it. Then, you can embed a search box which searches just your site by including something like: <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"> <div style="border:1px solid black;padding:4px;width:20em;"> <input type="text" name="q" size="25" maxlength="255" value="" /> <input type="submit" value="Google Search" /></td></tr> <input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch" value="DOMAIN-NAME-HERE" checked /> only search DOMAIN-NAME-HERE<br /> </div> </form> Obviously changing the two 'DOMAIN-NAME-HERE' to be your site for your site. For example changing 'DOMAIN-NAME-HERE' to 'sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php' would make the box search only the Digital Medievalist wiki. Of course this isn't flawless. Google follows particular rules when indexing pages. Unless you are looking to put in a fair bit of time and effort, I would suggest the third option. -JAmes

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Optimizing historical text for Google
by Al Magary 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

[Reposted under a new, improved subject line] James Cummings wrote: > 3) By far the easiest is to make your HTML attractive to a third-party > search engine, and allow google to search and index it...Of course > this isn't flawless. Google follows particular rules when indexing pages. Sounds terrific to this editor! I've got a biblically sized edition in progress (Hall's Chronicle, 1550--about 700,000 words of Hall's text plus quite a lot of notes. Quite frankly, if this is ever to be put up on the web in my or anyone else's lifetime, I need to rely on tools like Google. I see that Google posts "Guidelines for Webmasters" at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html They seem very oriented toward those who run commercial sites. Are these guidelines adequate for making the kind of material that medievalists create attractive to a search engine like Google? Are there some that scholars would emphasize and others than Google doesn't post? BTW is it true that Google only index the top n% or K of a file? Cheers, Al Magary

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xsltproc and xsl
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi all, I just discovered xsltproc in linux. Does anybody know what XSL process it is? It seems quite good. Is there a reason not to prefer it to Saxon? -dan

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