Description
Research in Humanities Computing is an annual publication which represents the state of the art in humanities computing. Each volume contains a selection of papers presented at the joint annual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), based in North America, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), based in Europe. These are the two major associations for the use of computers in scholarly research and teaching in a wide range of humanities disciplines including languages, literature, history, philosophy, art, archeaology, and music. The 1991 ACH-ALLC conference was held in Tempe, Arizona. As in previous volumes, a broad variety of topics is covered and the range of papers reflects in particular the participation in the conference of a number of affiliated academic societies, including the American Philosophical Association, the Linguistic Society of America, the Association of Computational Linguistics, and the Modern Language Association. The increasing maturity of humanities computing as a discipline is evident from this collection: the papers typically describe realities and solutions rather than potentials or problems. This book is intended for teachers and researchers interested in computing applications in humanities and social science disciplines, particularly linguistics, lexicography, and textual analysis.Table of ContentPart One: Literary Analysis; Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan: Multi-dimensional analyses of authors' styles: Some case studies from the eighteenth century; David I. Holmes: Vocabulary richness and the Book of Mormon: A stylometric analysis of Mormon Scripture; Peter M.W. Robinson: COLLATE: A program for interactive collation of large textual traditions; Kathryn Sutherland: Waiting for connections: Hypertexts, multiplots, and the engaged reader; Part Two: Lexical Databases; Kip Canfield: Database objects for textual studies; Sumali Pin-Ngern Conlon and Martha Evens: A lexical database for nouns to support parsing, text generation, and information retrieval; Terumasa Ehara and Tsuyoshi Morimoto: Contents and structure of the ATR bilingual database of spoken dialogues; Elisabetta Marinai, Carol Peters, and Eugenio Picchi: A prototype system for the semi-automatic sense linking and merging of mono- and bilingual LDBS; Victor Raskin, Donalee H. Attardo, and Salvatore Attardo: The SMEARR semantic database: An intelligent and versatile resource for the humanities; Part Three: Metaphor; Dan Fass: A computer method for recognizing metaphors in sentences; Bipin Indurkhya: A computational perspective on similarity-creating metaphors; James H. Martin: Computer understanding of conventional metaphor; Part Four: Linguistics; Rodolfo Delmonte and Dario Bianchi: Computing discourse anaphora from grammatical representation; One-Soon Her, Dan Highbotham, and Joseph Pentheroudakis: Lexical and idiomatic transfer in machine translation: An LFG approach; David C. Hunter and Rita D'Arcangelis: A partitioned rule-based approach to content analysis; Part Five: Meaning and Understanding; Patricia Cotoneschi and Monica Monachini: An empirical experience on the utilization of the Italian reference corpus in meaning analysis; Takahiro Nakamura and Satoshi Aisaka: Fizzy inference: A new approach to keyword extraction in Japanese; John F. Reeves: A computer model of thematic story understanding from moral reasoning.
