Panel and session abstracts

ALLC-ACH '96

• Administering small- and medium-sized humanities database projects in an age of shrinking budgets
  Panel organizer: David L. Gants, University of Virginia
  • Building a Mom and Pop Database: the 2000 books in the Milton Quarterly library become a relational database, through community effort
    Roy Flannagan, Ohio University
  • The Rossetti Archive: From Conception to Publisher
    Thornton Staples, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
  • Four computer-aided approaches to determining the provenances of Christian Doctrine, attributed to John Milton
    Tom Corns, University of Wales
  • The Studies in Bibliography Full-Text Database
    David L. Gants, University of Virginia
• Outside the cave of shadows: Using syntactic annotation to enhance authorship attribution
  Session organizer: Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
  • Experimental Design: Syntactic Annotation as Words
    Hans van Halteren, University of Nijmegen
  • Comparison of word-based and syntax-based methods:
    Vocabulary richness measures and the highest frequency elements
    Fiona Tweedie, University of the West of England
  • The discriminatory potential of the lowest frequency rewrite rules
    Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
• Digital Manuscripts: Editions v. Archives
  Session organizer: Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
  • Text as Data Type
    Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
  • Digital Editions: Variant Readings and Interpretations
    Dino Buzetti, University of Bologna
  • Digital Archives
    Stefan Aumann, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
• Encoding, Interpretation and Theory
  Panel organizer: Richard Giordano, University of Manchester
  • Into the Crucible: Testing the Merits of Hierarchical Models, Embedded Markup, and Monolithic SGML DTDs in Light of Conceptual Models of Text
    Robin Cover, Summer Institute for Linguistics
  • Why SGML is Prescriptive and Interpretive
    Claus Huitfeldt, Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
  • Text Theory and Coding Practice: Assessing the TEI
    Mark Olsen, University of Chicago
  • TEI Encoding: the Monster and the Critics
    Michael Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Hypertext Editions: Theory and Practice
  Panel organizer: Richard J. Finneran, University of Tennessee
  • Encoding Codicological and Bibliographical Data in the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
    Hoyt N. Duggan, The University of Virginia
  • Hypertext, Scholarly Annotation, and the Electronic Edition
    George P. Landow, Brown University
  • ... but what kind of electronic editions should we be making?
    Peter Robinson, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes
• In and out of Tags
  Session organizer: Claus Huitfeldt, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
  • Quality Assurance Between the Tags
    Maria Sollohub, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
  • Attributes: A Problem
    Claus Huitfeldt, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
  • Attributes: A Solution
    Peter Cripps, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
• Interaction in the Computer-Mediated Distance Learning Triptych: Description, Design, Implementation
  Session organizer: Heloisa Collins, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Description
    Robert Wyatt, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Design
    Heloisa Collins, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
    Rosinda Ramos, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Implementation
    Ana Silvia Ferreira, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
• New Research on the Stylometry of Latin Prose
  Session Organizer: Bernard Frischer, UCLA
  • Word-Order Transference Between Latin and Greek
    Bernard Frischer, UCLA
  • Is Variance of Function Words a Reliable Discriminator of Single and Multiple Author Corpora of Latin Prose? An Empirical Critique of Meissner's Studies of the Historia Augusta
    Emily Tse, University of Pennsylvania
  • The Provenance of Christian Doctrine, attributed to John Milton: An Evaluation of Alternative Statistical Methods
    Fiona Tweedie, University of the West of England
• Reconnecting the Science and the Humanities through Digital Research
  Panel organizer: Andrew Prescott, Department of Manuscripts, British Library
  • Participants:
    Kevin S. Kiernan, University of Kentucky
    Pamela M. King, University College of St. Martin, Lancaster
    Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield
    Andrew Prescott, British Library
• The Electronic Forum, or the Agora Reinvented
  Panel Home page
  Panel organizer: Dene Grigar, Texas Women's University
  • The Agora Factor(y): Architecture and Assembly in/of MOOs
    Cynthia Haynes, University of texas at Dallas
    Jan Rune Holmevik, University of Oslo
  • Macrologia: Theoretical Implications of On-Line Defenses, Conferences, and Publishing
    Dene Grigar, Texas Women's University
    Jeff Galin, University of Pittsburgh
  • Cybernetic Ecology: Harmonizing Student and Machine in the Humanities Classroom
    John Barber, Northwestern State University
• Using Computer Technology to Make Students Better and More Motivated Readers
  Session organizer: Margaret Haggstrom, Loyola College in Maryland
  • Speakers:
    Margaret Haggstrom, Loyola College in Maryland
    Randall Donaldson, Loyola College in Maryland