ALLC-ACH '96

Program

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Rooms will be available for BOF-sessions Wednesday 26 - Friday 28

For reservation of rooms for BOFs please contact Knut Hofland: Knut.Hofland@hd.uib.no

Saturday 22 June - Sunday 23 June
Villaveien 9
Pre conference course on text encoding
Monday 24 June
Excursion: Norway in a Nutshell
Tuesday 25 June
Law Faculty building, Dragefjellet
Magnus Lagabøteplass 1
09:00 - 13:00 ACH Executive Council
Seminar room 1, 4th floor
14:00 - 16:00 ALLC Committee
Seminar Room 1, 4th floor
16:00 - 17:30 Opening Session
Auditorium 1, 6th floor
Welcome speech:
Professor Leiv Egil Breivik, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Univ. of Bergen

Keynote speaker:
Professor Jon Bing
Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, The Univ. of Oslo
Digitizing Cultural Expressions - legal considerations
18:00 Reception hosted by the city of Bergen
Grieghallen
Wednesday 26 June
09:00 - 10:30
Sessions A
Auditorium 1
Sessions B
Auditorium 2
Sessions C
Auditorium 3
Sessions D
In and out of Tags

Session Organizer: Claus Huitfeldt, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
Chair: Michael Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illionois, Chicago

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
Distance learning

Chair: Per Vestbøstad, NCCH - University of Bergen

The Absalon project: Electronic learning tools in history
Jan Oldervoll, University of Bergen

A Multimedia History of Japan from the Aizu Point of View
Janet R. Goodwin, University of Aizu
James Goodwin, University of Aizu
Corpora

Chair: Stig Johansson, University of Oslo

Automated retrieval of passives from native and learner corpora: precision and recall
Sylviane Granger, Université Catholique de Louvain

Collocation and the rhetoric of scientific ideas. Corpus linguistics as a methodology for genre analysis.
Chris Gledhill, Aston University

Using word frequency lists to measure similarity between corpora
Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton
Seminar room 2, 4th floor

Presentations of demos and posters

Alexa/Rostek, Benney, Harriehausen-Mühlbauer, Havholm/Stewart, Ott, Flinn, Unsworth, Tiffin,Vanni (5 minutes each)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
New Research on the Stylometry of Latin Prose

Session organizer: Bernard Frischer, UCLA
Chair: Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Word-Order Transference Between Latin and Greek
Bernard Frischer, UCLA
Roger Andersen,UCLA, Jane Crawford, Loyola Marymount University, Ralph Gallucci, University of Central Arkansas, Donald Guthrie, UCLA, Emily Tse, University of Pennsylvania, Ann Taylor, University of Pennsylvania

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
Bernard Frischer, UCLA

The Provenance of Christian Doctrine, attributed to John Milton: An Evaluation of Alternative Statistical Methods
F. J. Tweedie, University of the West of England
T. N. Corns, University of Wales, J. K. Hale, University of Otago, G. Campbell, University of Leicester, D. I. Holmes, University of the West of England
CALL

Chair: Randall Jones, Brigham Young University

The use of distributed electronic classrooms in the teaching of language and literature
Harald Ulland, University of Bergen
Geir Pedersen, University of Oslo

Multimedia, Multilingual Hyperdictionaries: A Japanese <-> English Example
Harvey Abramson, Unisys Corp
Subbash Bhalla, Kiel Christianson, James Goodwin, Janet Goodwin, Lothar Schmidt, University of Aizu, John Saraille, California State University

A Multimedia Authoring Tool for Language Instruction
Alexander Nakhimovsky, Colgate University
Alice Nakhimovsky, Colgate University, Tom Myers, Colgate University
Text Corpora, Tools for analysis

Chair: David Barnard, Queen's University

APHRICA: A PHrase In Context Algorithm
John L. Dawson, Cambridge University

Analysing Parallel Texts with ParaConc
Michael Barlow, Rice University

TACT and SGML together at last: sgml2tdb
John Bradley, University of Toronto
Posters and demos

Innovations in Resources for Teaching History and Archaeology (demo)
Pauline McCormack, University of Glasgow

'Peripeteia': CAI Software for Teaching Literary and Rhetorical Terms (demo)
Anthony Flinn, Eastern Washington University

CASTLE - Computer ASsisted Tutoring and Learning Environment (demo)
Bettina Harriehausen-Mühlbauer, IBM Science Center Heidelberg

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Text Comprehension

Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR

PALOMAR: A Computer-aided Analysis of some Lexical and Stylistic Features
Adriana Roventini, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - ILC Pisa

Computer-assisted data-driven text analysis with TATOE
Melina Alexa, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, IPSI-GMD
Lothar Rostek, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, IPSI-GMD

POMMIER: a classification approach for assisted textual comprehension
Ioannis Kanellos, France Telecom University, Brest
Xavier Simon, Francois Riviere, Minh-San Nguyen, Emmanuel Mayer, Julie Canonge, France Telecom University, Brest
Interaction in the Computer-Mediated Distance Learning Triptych: Description, Design, Implementation

Session organizer: Heloisa Collins, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
Chair: Harold Short, King's College, London

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
Digital Manuscripts: Editions v. Archives

Session organizer: Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
Chair: Elli Mylonas, Brown University

Text as a Data Type
Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen

Digital Editions: Variant Readings and Interpretations
Dino Buzzetti, University of Bologna

Digital Archives
Stefan Aumann, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
Posters are available on the 4th floor
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 17:30
Literary Analysis

Chair: Lisa Lena Opas, University of Joensuu

Using a Narrative Generator to Teach Literary Theory
Peter Havholm, The College of Wooster
Larry Stewart, The College of Wooster

"So violent a metaphor." Adam Smith's metaphorical language in the Wealth of Nations
Thomas Rommel, University of Tübingen

Integrating Computer and Multimedia Technology into German Literature Courses
David H. Chisholm, University of Arizona
Using Computer Technology to Make Students Better and More Motivated Readers

Session organizer: Margaret Haggstrom, Loyola College in Maryland
Chair: Leslie Zarker Morgan, Loyola College in Maryland

Margaret Haggstrom, Loyola College in Maryland
Randall Donaldson, Loyola College in Maryland
Applications of SGML/TEI

Chair: Christian-Emil Ore, University of Oslo

Using the TEI Scheme in Compiling a Korean Dictionary
Beom-mo Kang, Korea University

Case Study on the Markup of the Japanese Classical Texts Using SGML
Shoichiro Hara, National Institute of Japanese Literature
Hisashi Yasunaga, National Institute of Japanese Literature

Text Analysis Software: Function, Requirements, and Architecture
Susan Hockey, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Posters and demos

Faculty of Arts building

Electronic classroom at the Faculty of Arts (demo)
Harald Ulland, University of Bergen

Faculty of Law building, Dragefjellet
Various rooms, 4th floor

The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (demo/poster)
Franz Hespe, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen

Software for Humanities Computing: Image Annotation, Unicode, and SGML packages from IATH (demo)
John Unsworth, IATH, University of Virginia

Corpus Methods for Interlingual Machine Translation (poster)
Michelle Vanni, Georgetown University

19:00 ALLC Open meeting
Auditorium 1
20:00 ACH Open meeting
Auditorium 1
Thursday 27 June
09:00 - 10:30
Lexicography

Chair: Lars G. Johnsen, NCCH - University of Bergen

An Architecture for Integrated Retrieval over Multiple Electronic Dictionaries
Jon Patrick, Massey University
Jun Zhang, Massey University, Xabier Artola-Zubillaga, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)

NORKOMPLEKS. Some Linguistic Specifications and Applications
Torbjørn Nordgård, University of Trondheim

EFL Wordstation
Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak, Adam Mikiewicz University
Panel: Hypertext Editions: Theory and Practice

Panel organizer: Richard J. Finneran, University of Tennessee
Chair: George P. Landow, Brown University

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
NLP, Quantitative Linguistics

Chair: Paul Meurer, NCCH - University of Bergen

Analysing Language Disorders: The Lexical Quantification of Aphasic Speech
David I. Holmes, University of the West of England
Sameer Singh, University of the West of England

Generating thematic choices for multilingual text generation
Julia Lavid Lopez, Universidad Computense de Madrid

A CoALiTS Case Study: Virginia Woolf's The Waves in French and German Translations
Jan-Mirko Maczewski, University of Göttingen
Posters and demos

Faculty of Arts building

Visit to the Multimedia Lab at the Faculty of Arts (demo)
Signe Marie Sanne, University of Bergen

Faculty of Law building, Dragefjellet
Various rooms, 4th floor

A ToolBook Application: Using Computer Puzzles To Teach Critical-Thinking Skills (demo/poster)
Alfred Benney, Fairfield University

A Demonstration of the Linear Modeling Kit (demo)
Peter Havholm/Larry L. Stewart, The College of Wooster

'Grotefend', a tool for deciphering ancient syllabic scripts (demo/poster)
Heikki S Särkkä, University of Joensuu

The limits to computer-based grammar checking for foreign language learners of English? (poster)
Philip Bolt, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Hypertext, Multimedia

Chair: Øystein Reigem, NCCH - University of Bergen

The Logic of Kanji Lookup in a Japanese <-> English Hyperdictionary
Harvey Abramson, Unisys Corp
Subbash Bhalla, Kiel Christianson, James Goodwin, Janet Goodwin, Lothar Schmidt, University of Aizu, John Saraille, California State University

Re-Locating Literary Study: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of VRML
Chad D. Kearsley, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panel: Encoding, Interpretation and Theory

Panel organizer and Chair: 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
Manuscripts, Classics

Chair: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell, Gothenburg University

Computer assisted collation of New Testament manuscripts
Tim Finney, Murdoch University, Western Australia

Form and Content. Conscious or Unconscious?
Nancy M. Laan University of Amsterdam
Posters and demos
4th floor

On Line French Literature Demonstration Project
Christopher G. Fox, CETH

Palimpsest for Windows:A Tool for Computer Assisted Literary Translation Studies (demo/poster)
Jan Mirko Maczewski, University of Göttingen

TATOE: Text Analysis Tool with Object Encoding (demo)
Melina Alexa/Lothar Rostek, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, GMD-IPSI

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Excursion
The bus leaves from Muséplass (The Museum Square)
20:00 Banquet
Håkonshallen
Friday 28 June
9:00 - 10:30
Theory of markup, SGML/TEI

Chair: Claus Huitfeldt, Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen

Complementary Approaches to Representing Differences Between Structured Documents
David T. Barnard, Queen's University
George M. Logan, Queen's University

What Should Markup Really Be? Applying theories of text to the design of markup systems.
David G. Durand, Boston University
Elli Mylonas, Brown University, Steven J. DeRose, Electronic Book Technologies

Book, Body and Text: The Women Writers Project and Problems of Text Encoding
Julia Flanders, Brown University
Authoring tools

Chair: Paul A. Fortier, Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba

Tools of Dual Utility: Multimedia Applications for Native American Language Preservation and Teaching
Arienne Dwyer, University of Washington
Sue-Ellen Jacobs, University of Washington, Charles Hiestand, University of Washington

Generating Coherent Paragraphs
Greg Lessard, Queen's University
Michael Levison, Queen's University
Panel: The Electronic Forum, or the Agora Reinvented

Panel Organizer: Dene Grigar, Texas Women's University
Chair: Willard McCarty, University of Toronto

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
Posters and demos

ENTRAP: Classification and identification of Early Arabic handwriting (demo)
Nourlan Kondybaev, Grand Limited/Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Grammatical encoding systems

Chair: Hans van Helteren, University of Nijmegen

A Standard for Encoding Linguistic Corpora
Nancy Ide, Vassar College
Jean Véronis, Université de Provence

A Grammatical Coding and Analysis System for Language Data from Normal and Brain-Damaged Children
Susan Curtiss, UCLA
Jeanette Schaeffer, UCLA, Tetsuya Sano, Meiji-Gakuin University (Tokyo), Jeff MacSwan, UCLA, Todd Masilon, UCLA

A Norwegian tagger and a corpus investigation
Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo
Panel: Administering small- and medium-sized humanities database projects in an age of shrinking budgets

Panel orghanizer: David L. Gants, University of Virginia
Chair: John Unsworth, 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 provenance 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
Bibliography

Chair: Michael Neuman, Georgetown University

The analytical bibliography of electronic texts
John Lavagnino, Brown University

Annotating as a Document Management Tool
O. Mazhoud, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
E. Pascual, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), J. Virbel, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
Posters and demos

Tools for Critical Editing (demo)
Wilhelm Ott, University of Tübingen

Hamlet Navigator (demo)
Phillip Weller, Eastern Washington University

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Literary Archives and TEI

Chair: David Chisholm, University of Arizona

Networking of Literary Archives (NOLA)
David T. Barnard, Queen's University
Allan Janik, Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv, Donald Broady, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Anders Burius, Royal Library, Stockholm, Lou Burnard, Oxford University, Heinz Hauffe, Universitätsbibliothek Innsbruck, Claus Huitfeldt, Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Lars G. Johnsen, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Richard M. de Peyer, Dorset County Museum

Electronic Edition of the Midrash Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer: Creating an Encoding Manual
Lewis M. Barth, Hebrew Union College

The Model Editions Partnership: Putting TEI Theory into Scholarly Practice
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago
David Chesnutt, University of South Carolina
Natural Language Processing

Chair: Nancy Ide, Vassar College

Applying Machine Translation Techniques to the Evaluation of Pedagogical Grammars
Simon Berry, The Robert Gordon University
Arturo Trujillo, The Robert Gordon University

Coordination as Direct Process
Augusta Mela, University Paris XIII
Christophe Fouqueré, University Paris XIII

Defining Verb Semantic Classes for French and Their Semantic Characterization
Patrick Saint-Dizier, IRIT-CNRS
Databases

Chair: Charles Bush, Brigham Young University

The 'Thesaurus of Old English' database: a research tool for historians of language and culture
Lynne Grundy, King's College London
Harold Short, King's College London

The Académie Sample Database
Russon Wooldridge, University of Toronto
Isabelle Leroy-Turcan, University of Lyon III

Small-time production of a big-time product: A Franco-Italian Glossary
Leslie Zarker Morgan, Loyola College in Maryland
Posters and demos

COLT on TACT: A demonstration of the TACTweb software as applied to the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (demo/poster)
Ingrid Kristine Hasund, University of Bergen

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 17:30
Corpus based lexical analysis

Chair: Lisa Lena Opas, University of Joensuu

Aging in the Treasure: Some Methods for Evaluating Content Words in Large Data Bases
Paul A Fortier, .Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba
Kevin J. Keen, University of Manitoba, Marc Fortier, St. Paul's High School

New maps of text: a new way to account for the distribution of lexemes in texts.
M.M.A. Juillard, Université Nice - Sophia Antipolis
N. X. Luong, Université Nice - Sophia Antipolis
Outside the cave of shadows: Using syntactic annotation to enhance authorship attribution

Session organizer: Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Chair: Roald Skarsten, University of Bergen

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
Databases (2)

Chair: Kirsti Rye Ramberg, University of Trondheim

New life for old reports - The Archaeological Part of the National Documentation Project of Norway
Jon Holmen, University of Oslo
Espen Uleberg, University of Oslo

The Reading Database of Syllable Structure
Erik Fudge, University of Reading
Linda Shockey, University of Reading
Posters and demos

SARA (demo)
Lou Burnard, Oxford University

Alignment and Browsing of the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (demo)
Knut Hofland, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, University of Bergen

CETH TEI Pilot Projects (poster)
Wendell Piez, Anthony Lioi, Julia Lougovaya, Mary Jo Watts, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), Princeton/Rutgers University

The Academy Electronic Editions of Australian Literature (poster)
Chris Tiffin, University of Queensland; Paul Eggert, Australian Defence Force Academy; Graham Barwell, University of Wollongong

19:00 TEI Open meeting
Auditorium 1
Saturday 29 June
9:00 - 10:30
Semantic modelling of texts

Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR

Actor-Role Analysis: Ideology, Point of View, and the News
Warren Sack, MIT Media Laboratory

Text structure Modelling and Language Comprehension processes
Ylias Chali, CNRS Toulouse
Elsa Pascual, CNRS Toulouse, Jacques Virbel, CNRS Toulouse

Speech Strategies in the Discourse of Psychotic Patients
Sylviane Burner, University of Metz
Panel: Reconnecting the Science and the Humanities through Digital Research

Panel organiser: Andrew Prescott, Department of Manuscripts, British Library
Chair: Seamus Ross, British Academy

Kevin S. Kiernan, University of Kentucky
Pamela M. King, University College of St Martin, Lancaster
Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield
Andrew Prescott, British Library
Author identification

Chair: Roy Flannagan, Ohio University

Disputed Authorship: 30 Biographies and Six Reputed Authors A New Analysis by Full-Text Lemmatization of the 'Historia Augusta'
Penelope J. Gurney, University of Ottawa

Two methods of Author Identification: the Gary/Ajar case. author style statistics
Vina Tirvengadum, University of Manitoba

A New Procedure for Author Attribution
Roy Felton, Manukau Institute of Technology
10:30 - 11:30 Coffee
11:00 Closing session
Auditorium 1