============================================================ _REACH_, Spring 1993 ------------------------------- Research & Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities ----------------------------------- Newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California at Santa Barbara ------------------------------------------------ (Vol. 5, No. 2, ISSN 1066-1719) ------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS * ACH/ALLC '93 SET FOR GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY * NEW OED CONFERENCE AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY * JAPAN MT MEETING * E-GROUP ON SCHOLARLY EDITING FORMED * NEW LATIN E-GROUP JUST ANNOUNCED * HCF OFFERS E-MAIL SEMINARS FOR FACULTY AND GRADS * AUSTRALIAN E-JOURNAL * VICTORIAN STUDIES E-GROUP ANNOUNCED * ACH/ALLC '93 PAPERS AND PANELS * E-GROUP ON URBAN HISTORY AT U. OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO * HNSOURCE SERVER FOUNDED AT UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS * ISLAMIC COMPUTING * SUMMER LINGUISTICS SEMINAR IN BULGARIA * E-WORLD ON MULTIMEDIA ------------------------------------------------------------ * ACH/ALLC '93 SET FOR GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (The joint international conference is scheduled for June 16-19, 1993, in Washington, D.C.) by Michael Neuman On behalf of the Executive Committees of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, we cordially invite you to attend the fifth annual joint international conference, to be held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., June 16-19, 1993. This conference is the major forum for discussion of the preparation, encoding, and use of character-based electronic text and for computer-based research in literature, linguistics, and related humanities disciplines. It will feature presenters from fourteen countries and include eighty papers on the development of new computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities, on the development of significant new materials and tools for humanities research, and on the application and evaluation of computing techniques in humanities subjects. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Hugh Kenner, Franklin and Calloway Professor of English at the University of Georgia, and Clifford Lynch, Director of Library Automation at the Office of the President, University of California. A special feature will be a series of sessions, organized by the library community, on electronic resources for the humanities. Other attractions include a forum on the Text Encoding Initiative and encoding with SGML, a software fair, banquet, vendor display, and optional text-analysis workshop. Georgetown University, situated along the Potomac River in an historic district that predates our Nation's Capital, is the site for the conference. The Association for Computers and the Humanities is a professional society for scholars working in computer- related research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other disciplines of the humanities. Individual membership is $60 US a year and includes a subscription to _Computers and the Humanities_ (six issues a year) and the _ACH Newsletter_ (four issues a year). The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing was founded in 1973 as an international association to promote the development of literary and linguistic computing. Membership is by personal subscription to the journal _Literary and Linguistic Computing_, which is published by Oxford University Press, Pinkhill House, Southfield Road, Eynsham, Oxford, OX8 1JJ. Subscription rates for 1992 are 30 pounds (U.K.) or $57 (rest of the world). On-site registration will be held from 9 am to 9 pm at the ACH/ALLC '93 Conference Headquarters in Copley Formal Lounge, beginning June 15 and extending throughout the entire conference. At 6 pm on June 15, a welcome cocktail party for participants will be held on the upper-level esplanade of the Leavey Conference Center. The conference will commence with an opening session on Wednesday, June 16, at 9 am in Gaston Hall. For further information on the conference, please communicate with the local organizer: Michael Neuman ACH/ALLC '93 Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Phone: 202/687-6096 Fax: 202/687-6003 ach_allc93@guvax.georgetown.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * NEW OED CONFERENCE AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY The Ninth Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research, jointly sponsored by the University of Waterloo and the Oxford University Press, will be held at St. Cross Building (with accommodations at St. Edmund Hall), Oxford, England, on September 27-28, 1993. According to the organizers, "This year's conference will focus on computational solutions to problems of equivalence among words and phrases." They add that "within lexicography, one of the most important problems in this area is one of grouping equivalents: sifting through corpus citations to form sense groups. Within lexicology and computational linguistics, there are problems of finding equivalents: matching citations to dictionary senses, aligning one dictionary's senses with another's, and aligning parts of texts with their translations. In related fields, there are problems of forming equivalents: generating translations, expanding full-text queries to include synonyms, and tailoring texts to suit specific audiences." Among the conference participants will be researchers from computer science and the humanities, as well as representatives from publishing houses and other industries. Papers are expected in such fields as computational lexicology, computational linguistics, syntactic and semantic analysis, computational lexicography, lexical databases, computer-assisted translation, and online reference works. For further information, please communicate with the program chair: Frank Tompa UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Fax: 519/885-1208 newoed@uwaterloo.ca ------------------------------------------------------------ * JAPAN MT MEETING The international conference, Machine Translation Summit IV, with the theme "International Cooperation for Global Communication," will be held on July 19-22, 1993 at the Hotel Ohkura in Kobe City, Japan. The general chair of the conference is Makoto Nagao of Kyoto University. Hosts for the conference are the Asian-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), and the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association (JEIDA). For further information about this international conference on machine translation, please communicate with the secretariat of the AAMT: Akasaka Chuo Mansion 305 2-17 Akasaka 7-chome Minato-ku Tokyo 107, Japan Phone: 03-3479-4396 Fax: 03-3479-4895 ------------------------------------------------------------ * E-GROUP ON SCHOLARLY EDITING FORMED The Association for Documentary Editing has established an electronic discussion group for its members and any others interested in issues in scholarly editing of all types of material. The Bitnet and Internet addresses of the unmoderated group and its list server are: sedit-l@umdd.bitnet sedit-l@umdd.umd.edu listserv@umdd.bitnet listserv@umdd.umd.edu To subscribe to the group, send an ordinary e-mail message without any subject to the address of the list server. The message should contain nothing more than the single line: subscribe sedit-l "your name" with your own name, not your e-mail address, in place of "your name," without the quotation marks. For further information on this new electronic discussion group, please communicate with the owner of the group: Frank Burke fb18@umail.umd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * NEW LATIN E-GROUP JUST ANNOUNCED Kevin Berland has just announced the formation of Latin-L, a new electronic discussion group for anyone interested in Latin. Its Bitnet and Internet addresses are: latin-l@psuvm.bitnet latin-l@psuvm.psu.edu listserv@psuvm.bitnet listserv@psuvm.psu.edu According to Berland, the new group is "a forum for people interested in classical Latin, medieval Latin, Neo-Latin-- the languages of choice are Latin (of course) and whatever vulgar languages you feel comfortable using. Please be prepared to translate on request. The field is open--name your topic!" To subscribe to Latin-L, send an e-mail message to the list server address containing the single line: subscribe latin-l "your name" with your own name, not your e-mail address, in place of "your name," without the quotation marks. For further information about the new discussion group, please communicate with the owner: Kevin Berland bcj@psuvm.bitnet bcj@psuvm.psu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * HCF OFFERS E-MAIL SEMINARS FOR FACULTY AND GRADS (The seminars will cover various aspects of electronic communication, from e-groups to gophers.) During the spring quarter the Humanities Computing Facility is offering a continuous series of seminars on various aspects of electronic communication to interested UCSB faculty members and graduate students in the humanities and fine arts. Seminar topics vary from week to week, depending upon expressed needs and interests. Each seminar will last approximately an hour. One of the most popular seminars has been a very basic introduction to the ingredients of electronic communication and its potential uses. Participants who have had little if any experience of electronic communication have found that this seminar provides them quickly with a sense of its possibilities without involving them unnecessarily in the technical portions of the subject. Among the topics covered briefly in this introductory seminar are: what you need in order to use e-mail, how to get an e-mail account at UCSB, different e-mail machines on campus, the conventions of e-mail addresses, e-mail connections to different countries in the world, various e-mail programs in use on different e-mail machines, electronic discussion groups, electronic journals, access to computerized library catalogues and archives through telnet and ftp, and gopher information servers. A number of demonstrations are included, and participants are provided with printed informational handouts summarizing the topics discussed. Other seminars cover particular areas in greater detail, among them access to MELVYL and PEGASUS, the UC and UCSB library systems; Pine, an e-mail program on the "humanitas" mailing machine; the PopMail and NuPop e-mail programs; and the standard UNIX mail program. To learn about the topics of the seminars scheduled for the coming week, or to suggest topics for additional seminars, or to sign up for any seminars covering areas of interest, please telephone or write to the director of the HCF, Eric Dahlin, at the number and address below. Eric Dahlin 805/893-2208 HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * AUSTRALIAN E-JOURNAL Paul Turnbull has announced the development of CLIONET, an electronic journal of history based on the gopher server at James Cook University in Australia. The new journal will be governed by an editorial board, and contributions will be reviewed by referees. Although particularly interested in publishing the work of younger scholars, it welcomes all contributions, regardless of the author's status or field. It's hoped that CLIONET will become a significant force in encouraging historical scholarship in Australia. CLIONET will reside in James Cook University's gopher server, under "Academic Departments." For more information on CLIONET, please communicate with: Paul Turnbull hipgt@jcu.edu.au hipgt@marlin.jcu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------ * VICTORIAN STUDIES E-GROUP ANNOUNCED Patrick Leary and Glenn Everett have announced the founding of a new electronic discussion group on Victorian Studies. According to its founders, "VICTORIA is an electronic conference devoted to the interdisciplinary field of Victorian Studies and dedicated to the sharing of information and ideas about any and all aspects of 19th-century British culture and society." The Bitnet and Internet addresses of the new group are: victoria@iubvm.bitnet victoria@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu listserv@iubvm.bitnet listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu Leary and Everett add that "covering a period even longer than the reign of its namesake (say, 1790 to 1914), VICTORIA equally welcomes the contributions of students of literature, art, social history, gender studies, politics, publishing, intellectual history, or what-have-you." They comment further that "for the most passionate devotee of literary theory as well as the most hardheaded empiricist, VICTORIA provides that beloved Victorian thing, a `cheap luxury,' in the shape of a free electronic forum for the exchange of research ideas and queries, notices of recent books and articles, conference listings, and job announcements, and for lively discussion of any issues, large or small, that bear on the study of 19th-century Britain." To subscribe to VICTORIA, simply send an ordinary e-mail message to the address of the list server containing the single line: subscribe victoria "your name" with your own name, not your e-mail address, in place of "your name," without the quotation marks. If you have any questions or comments about VICTORIA, please communicate with the owners: Patrick Leary pleary@iubacs.bitnet pleary@ucs.indiana.edu Glenn Everett ivaa@utmartn.bitnet everett@utkvx.utk.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * ACH/ALLC '93 PAPERS AND PANELS ACH/ALLC '93, the joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, will be held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on June 16-19, 1993 (see story on page 1). Listed below are the keynote speeches and the papers and panels accepted for presentation at the conference. Keynote Speeches: ----------------- Clifford Lynch, Director of Library Automation, Office of the President, University of California Hugh Kenner, Franklin and Calloway Professor of English, University of Georgia Accepted Papers: ---------------- Douglas A. Kibbee (University of Illinois) The History of Disciplinary Vocabulary: A Computer-Based Approach to Concepts of `Usage' in 17th-Century Works on Language Terry Butler, Donald Bruce (University of Alberta) Towards the Discourse of the Commune: Computer Aided Analysis of Jules Valles' Trilogy _Jacques Vingtras_ John Lavagnino (Brandeis University) Hypertext and Textual Editing Risto Miilumaki (University of Turku) The Prerelease Materials for _Finnegans Wake_: A Hypermedia Approach to Joyce's Work in Progress Catherine Scott (University of North London) Hypertext as a Route into Computer Literacy Thomas B. Horton (Florida Atlantic University) Finding Verbal Correspondences Between Texts David Holmes (The University of the West of England), Michael L. Hilton (University of South Carolina) Cumulative Sum Charts for Authorship Attribution: An Appraisal Lisa Lena Opas (University of Joensuu) Analysing Stylistic Features in Translation: A Computer-Aided Approach Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Jean Veronis (GRTC/CNRS) An Encoding Scheme for Machine Readable Dictionaries Peter Flynn (University College, Cork) Spinning the Web--Using WorldWideWeb for Browsing SGML Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen) MECS--A Multi-Element Code System Wilfried Ver Eecke, Marvin Needell (Georgetown University) Computer Analysis of Hegel's _Phenomenology of Mind_ Tony Jappy (University of Perpignan) The Verbal Structure of Romantic and Serious Fiction Thomas Rommel (University of Tuebingen) An Analysis of Word Clusters in Lord Byron's _Don Juan_ Daniel C. Jacobson (University of North Dakota) Multi-Media Environments for the Study of Musical Form and Analysis John Morehen (University of Nottingham) Computers and Authenticity in the Performance of Elizabethan Keyboard Music Christian Delcourt (Universite de Liege) Computational Linguistics from 500 BC to AD 1700 Catherine N. Ball (Georgetown University) Automated Text Analysis: Cautionary Tales Jean-Jacques Hamm, Greg Lessard (Queen's University) Do Literary Studies Really Need Computers? John Burrows (University of Newcastle, Australia) Noisy Signals? Or Signals in the Noise? Hans van Halteren (University of Nijmegen) The Usefulness of Function and Attribute Information in Syntactic Annotation R. Harald Baayen (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics) Quantitative Aspects of Lexical Conceptual Structure Elizabeth S.Adams (Hood College) Let the Trigrams Fall Where They May: Trigram Type and Tokens in the Brown Corpus Greg Lessard, Michael Levison (Queen's University) Computational Models of Riddling Strategies Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University), Steven Gilles, Gert Durieux (University of Antwerp) Learning Linguistic Mappings: An Instance-Based Learning Approach Michael J. Almeida, Eugenie P. Almeida (University of Northern Iowa) NewsAnalyzer--An Automated Assistant for the Analysis of Newspaper Discourse Kazys Baniulis, Bronius Tamulynas, Kestutis Pocius, Saulius Simniskis, Daiva Dmuchovska, Jolanta Normantiene (Kaunas University of Technology) Computer-Based Lithuanian Language Learning System in Humanities Programs Eve Wilson (University of Kent at Canterbury) Language of Learner and Computer: Modes of Interaction Floyd D. Barrows, Elaine Cherney, James B. Obielodan (Michigan State University) An Experimental Computer-Assisted Instructional Unit on Ancient Hebrew History and Society Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ting-Chuan Chung (National Taiwan University) Proper Treatments of Ellipsis Problems in an English-Chinese Machine Translation System Jorge Hankamer (University of California, Santa Cruz) keCitexts: Text-based Analysis of Morphology and Syntax in an Agglutinating Language Juha Heikkila, Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki) ENGCG: An Efficient and Accurate Parser for English Texts Wen-Chiu Tu (University of Illinois) Sound Correspondences in Dialect Subgrouping Ellen Johnson, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (University of Georgia) Using Linguistic Atlas Databases for Phonetic Analysis Shoichiro Hara, Hisashi Yasunaga (National Institute of Japanese Literature) On the Full-Text Database of Japanese Classical Literature Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto) A Textbase of Early Modern English Dictionaries, 1499-1659 Dionysis Goutsos, Ourania Hatzidaki, Philip King (University of Birmingham) Towards a Corpus of Spoken Modern Greek Yannis Haralambous (Lille, France) ScholarTeX Kathryn Burroughs Taylor (McLean, Virginia) Transferring Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR) Performance Improvement Technology to Optical Character Recognition David J. Hutches (University of California, San Diego) Lexical Classification: Examining a New Tool for the Statistical Processing of Plain Text Corpora Espen S. Ore, Anne Haavaldsen (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities) Computerizing the Runic Inscriptions at the Historic Museum in Bergen Daan van Reenen (Free University, Amsterdam) Early Islamic Traditions, History and Information Science Angela Gilham (Tyne and Wear, U.K.) Knowledge-Based Simulation: Applications in History Malcolm B. Brown (Dartmouth College) Navigating the Waters: Building an Academic Information System Charles Henry (Vassar College) The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Global Library, and the Humanities Christian-Emil Ore The Norwegian Information System for the Humanities Michael Strangelove (University of Ottawa) The State and Potential of Networked Resources for Religious Studies: An Overview of Documented Resources and the Process of Creating a Discipline-Specific Networked Archive of Bibliographic Information and Research/Pedagogical Material Andrew D. Scrimgeour (Regis University) Cocitation Study of Religious Journals Accepted Panels: ---------------- Documenting Electronic Texts Annelies Hoogcarspel (Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities), Chair TEI Header, Text Documentation, and Bibliographic Control of Electronic Texts Richard Giordano (Manchester University) Panelist TBA Preserving the Human Electronic Record: Responsibilities, Problems, Solutions Peter Graham (Rutgers University), Chair Barry Neavill (University of Alabama) W. Scott Stornetta (Bellcore) Networked Electronic Resources: New Opportunities for Humanities Scholars Christine Mullings (University of Bath), Chair HUMBUL: A Successful Experiment Richard Gartner (Bodleian Library) Moves Towards the Electronic Bodleian: Introducing Digital Imaging into the Bodleian Library, Oxford Jonathan Moffett (Ashmolean Museum) Making Resource Databases Accessible to the Humanities Developing and Managing Electronic Texts Centers Mark Day (Indiana University), Chair and Participant Anita Lowry (University of Iowa) John-Price Wilkin (University of Virginia) Design Principles for Electronic Textual Resources: Integrating the Uses, Users and Developers Susan Hockey (Center for Electronic Text in the Humanities), Chair Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers University) Elaine Brennan (Brown University) Robin Cover (Dallas, TX) What Next After the TEI? Call for a Text Software Initiative Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Chair Malcolm Brown (Dartmouth College) Mark Olsen (University of Chicago) Jean Veronis (CNRS, Marseille) Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica, Pisa) Representative of GNU Free Software Foundation Issues in Humanities Computing Support Charles D. Bush (Brigham Young University), Chair Peter Lafford (Arizona State University) Terry Butler (University of Alberta) Donald Spaeth (University of Glasgow) Malcolm Brown (Dartmouth College) The Scholar's Workbench and the "Edition:" Legitimate Aspiration or Chimera Frank Colson (University of Southampton) The Debate on Multi-Media Standards Manfred Thaller (Max-Planck-Institt fr Geschichte) Exploiting Datasets Using Kleio under Microcosm Dino Buzzetti (University of Bologna) Masters and Books in Fourteenth Century Bologna Frank Colson, Wendy Hall (University of Southampton) Towards a Multi-Media Edition Interrogating the Text: Hypertext in English Literature Caroline Davis (Oxford University), Chair Patrick W. Conner, Rudolph P. Almasy (West Virginia University) Corpus Exegesis in the Literature Classroom: The Sonnet Workstation Mike Best (Victoria University) Of Hype and Hypertext: In Search of Structure Stuart Lee (Oxford Univ.) Hypermedia in the Trenches: First World War Poetry in Hypercard--Observations on Evaluation, Design, and Copyright The Computerization of the Manuscript Tradition of Chretien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette" Joel Goldfield (Plymouth State College), Chair and Reporter Karl D. Uitti (Princeton University) Old French Manuscripts, the Modern Book, and the Image Gina L. Greco (Portland State University) The Electronic Diplomatic Transcription of Chretien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot):" Its Forms and Uses Toby Paff (Princeton University) The "Charrette" Database: Technical Issues and Experimental Resolutions The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen), Chair Claus Huitfeldt, Ole Letnes (University of Bergen) Encoding Wittgenstein Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen) Manuscript Encoding: Alphatexts and Betatexts Alois Pichler (University of Bergen) What Is Transcription, Really? Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literary Studies--New Responses Paul A. Fortier (University of Manitoba), Chair Mark Olsen (University of Chicago) Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literary Studies Donald Bruce (University of Alberta) Towards the Implementation of Text and Discourse Theory in Computer-Aided Analysis Paul Fortier (University of Manitoba) Babies, Bathwater, and the Study of Literature Joel D. Goldfield (Plymouth State College) An Argument for Single-Author and Other Focused Studies Using Quantitative Criticism: A Collegial Response to Mark Olsen Gina L. Greco and Peter Shoemaker (Princeton University) Computer-Aided Literary Studies: Addressing the Particularities of Medieval Texts Ellen Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University) Have It Your Way and Mine: The Theory of Styles Invited SIGIR Panel on Information Retrieval Edward Fox (Virginia Technical University), Chair and Presenter Electronic Dissertation Project Elizabeth D. Liddy (Syracuse University) Use of Extractable Semantics from a Machine Readable Dictionary for Information Tasks Robert P. Futrelle (Northeastern University) Representing, Searching, Annotating, and Classifying Scientific and Complex Orthographic Text The British National Corpus: Problems in Producing a Large Text Corpus Gavin Burnage (Oxford University Computing Service), Chair Roger Garside (Lancaster University) Ray Woodall (Oxford University Press) The Academical Village: Electronic Texts and the University of Virginia John Price-Wilkin (University of Virginia), Chair Kendon Stubbs (University of Virginia) David Seaman (University of Virginia) David Gants (University of Virginia) ------------------------------------------------------------ * E-GROUP ON URBAN HISTORY AT U. OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO According to its founder, Wendy Plotkin, "A new group, H- Urban (URBAN HISTORY) has been set up at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in order to provide a forum for scholars of urban history. The UIC history department has a long-standing interest in the history of Chicago and other U.S. cities, ethnicity and immigration, and of European and Russian urban development." The Bitnet and Internet addresses of the new group are: h-urban@uicvm.bitnet h-urban@uicvm.uic.edu listserv@uicvm.bitnet listserv@uicvm.uic.edu Plotkin indicates that "the primary purpose of H-Urban is to enable urban historians to easily communicate current research and research interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share reviews of useful resources including monographs, journals, articles, and primary source materials such as papers, maps, records, and databases; and to announce calls for papers, conferences, museum and society shows, exhibitions, job opportunities, grants and fellowships." She adds, "H-Urban is also a forum for exploring the approaches, methods and tools used in teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students. Discussion of cities throughout human history, and in all geographic areas is welcome." To subscribe to the group, send the usual subscription command to the address of the list server. Documents of interest to urban historians--bibliographies, book and article reviews, announcements, teaching materials, and descriptions of tools, techniques, and computer software and hardware--will be maintained in the group archive. To obtain a list of available documents, send the command: index h-urban to the address of the list server. To obtain a specific document, send the command: get filename filetype to the same list server address. For further information, please communicate with the editor of the group: Wendy Plotkin u20566@uicvm.bitnet u20566@uicvm.uic.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * HNSOURCE SERVER FOUNDED AT UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Marc Becker and Lynn Nelson of the University of Kansas recently announced the formation of HNSOURCE, a central information server for historians. Developed under the auspices of The History Network, the server provides connections to on-line library catalogues, and to databases and FTP sites that contain materials relevant to historical studies. It also offers users a full text document archive, access to world-wide gophers, several works on the use of the Internet, some Project Gutenberg electronic texts, as well as other facilities. The History Network hopes that HNSOURCE will also serve as a point of collection for materials that historians wish to share with the public. A bulletin board feature is ready to accommodate calls for papers, conference notices, job announcements and the like. HNSOURCE has been set up to offer a maximum of ease and simplicity of use, and comments, criticisms, and suggestions may be made to the two administrators from within the system. To reach HNSOURCE, telnet to the Internet address: hnsource.cc.ukans.edu and log on to the system as "history." No password is required. The administrators encourage users to feel free to browse and copy whatever they wish. They hope to receive comments and suggestions, as well as pointers to useful sources and sites, and the donation of any materials users think might be of interest to others. They also hope that announcements will be sent to them for circulation to the historical community. Those with questions of any kind about HNSOURCE should communicate with the two administrators: Marc Becker mabecker@ukanvm.bitnet Lynn Nelson lhnelson@ukanvm.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ * ISLAMIC COMPUTING The Islamic Computing Centre, London, was established in 1982 to serve as a computer research and development center in the field of Islamic Studies, with the aim of producing the primary and secondary Islamic literature in electronic form through the use of new technologies. Among the clients of the ICC are university departments specializing in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, research institutions of various foundations, Islamic institutions such as Islamic banks, religious organizations, governments of Muslim countries, and individual scholars. For further information on the ICC, please communicate with: Ak Barkatulla, Director The Islamic Computing Centre 73, St. Thomas's Road London N4 2QJ, U.K. Phone: 071-359 6233 Fax: 071-226 2024 barkatulla@lampeter.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ * SUMMER LINGUISTICS SEMINAR IN BULGARIA (The seminar will be held in the Rhodope Mountains, September 5-11. The annual Bulgarian summer linguistics seminar, "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics," will be held September 5-11, 1993, at the KZU Guest house, Vassil Kolarov Lake, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Although designed primarily for university students and young researchers, the seminar will offer both introductory and advanced courses. Participants who would like to extend their stay in Bulgaria can join the Bulgarian National seminar on mathematical and computational linguistics, which will take place September 8-15 at the same location. The seminar is organized by the Institute of Mathematics, Sofia; LIMSI Orsay, France; and Incoma-TD Co., Ltd., Shumen, Bulgaria. The preliminary program will include the following courses, with the probable addition of two or three more: Jun-ichi Tsuji (UMIST, Manchester), "Sub-Language-based Machine Translation"; Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal), "Meaning-Text Model and Application in Generation of Natural Language"; Dominique Estival (ISSCO, Geneva), "Transfer or Interlingua?"; Johann Haller (IAI, Saarbruecken), "Unification-based Machine Translation"; Zaharin Yusoff (University of Science, Penang, Malaysia), "The Role of Grammar Formalisms in Machine Translation"; Michael Zock (LIMSI, France), "Text Generation"; and Pieter Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Holland), "Introduction to Semantic Syntax." The fee for the seminar is $150 for full-time students, $200 for academic employees, and $300 for all other participants. The fee includes attendance at the seminar, abstracts of the lectures, refreshments, and a reception, as well as meals and accommodation in two-bed rooms at the Guest House. Participants will be requested to pay the fee in cash on site (any currency is acceptable). Registration forms, giving name, address, university affiliation, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address, should arrive not later than June 30, 1993, at the address below. For further information on the seminar, please communicate with: Nikolai Nikolov, Incoma P.O. Box 20 9700 Shumen, Bulgaria Phone: (359-54) 56948 Fax: (359-54) 56881 ------------------------------------------------------------ * E-WORLD ON MULTIMEDIA We've recently acquired a machine for the development of experimental multimedia instructional applications in the MS-DOS area, an IBM PS/2 Ultimedia M57slc model equipped with an internal CD-ROM player. The computer is connected to a Pioneer 8000 video laserdisc player and a Sony 27 inch monitor. It's using Windows 3.1, with its Multimedia Extensions, and the multimedia edition of Toolbook, by Asymetrix. As is usual on these occasions, we needed to think of an initial project to try out on the equipment. Full-blown multimedia projects require long-range commitment and the investment of a great deal of time. It would be better, we knew, if we could find as a starting project something which could be constructed fairly quickly. As mentioned elsewhere in this issue, I've been offering some seminars recently on the exploration of the e-world, providing those attending with the usual printed handouts. I was discussing the seminars with Gunther Gottschalk, the chair of our advisory committee, and he suggested that I might think of developing a multimedia tutorial on electronic communication. Of course! A great idea! Thinking of a good title is the first thing to do in these circumstances, isn't it? What about "E-World on Multimedia"? That has a nice sound to it. With that out of the way we can now begin the project. There don't seem to be any significant obstacles. Several of us already have some acquaintance with Toolbook, having used it to develop one or two experimental instructional and informational applications recently. Much of the needed text already exists in the form of the seminar handouts. Of course we'll have to leave the video for the second edition. Aside from making the tutorial available in the two locations of the HCF, we can use the runtime version of Toolbook to distribute the tutorial to any department with a machine running Windows. Many departments now have that capability. A multimedia tutorial will have some distinct advantages. The material can be updated easily. New versions can be distributed to departments without any great expense. Users can review whatever portions of the material are of interest to them whenever it's convenient and can repeat the review of any sections of the material as often as needed. Anyone new to the campus can acquire the information immediately without having to wait for a scheduled class. I'll be reporting on the progress of "E-World on Multimedia" in the coming editions of _REACH_. --Eric Dahlin ------------------------------------------------------------ _REACH_ is published four times a year by the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Advisory Committee: Marla Berns Art Museum Richard Bolton Art Studio Edward Branigan Film Studies Henri Dorra Art History Robert Egan Dramatic Art Ronald Egan East Asian Lang. & Cult. Studies H.S. Gopal Linguistics Gunther Gottschalk, Chair Germanic, Oriental, & Slavic Carl Gutierrez-Jones English Barbara Harthorn Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Michael Ingham Music Sydney Levy, Vice Chair French & Italian Albert Lindemann, Vice Chair History Giorgio Perissinotto Spanish & Portuguese Robert Renehan Classics W. Clark Roof Religious Studies Nathan Salmon Philosophy Muriel Zimmerman Writing Program ------------------------------------------------------------ HCF Executive Director & Editor of _REACH_: Eric Dahlin Phone: 805/893-2208 HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ The electronic version of _REACH_ is prepared from the files used to produce the paper edition. A few formatting changes have been made to adapt the text to electronic transmission, but the content of the two versions is identical. A complete table of contents has been included for the convenience of e-mail readers. ======================= end of file ========================