Information Retrieval List Digest 062 (May 17, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-062 ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 17 May 91 09:50:54 PST Reply-To: Information Retrieval List Sender: Information Retrieval List From: IRLIST Subject: IRLIST Digest, Vol. VIII, No. 19, Issue 62 IRLIST Digest May 17, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 19 Issue 62 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. TEI North American Workshop, Brown University, Providence, RI, July 22-23, 1991 2. TEI European Workshop, Oxford University, Oxford, England, July 1-2, 1991 C. Miscellaneous 1. Collate announcement II. QUERIES A. Questions and Answers 1. Queueing theory question B. Requests for Information 1. Full text corpuses ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Nancy M. Ide (914) 437-5988 Re: TEI workshop * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TEI North American Workshop * * 22-23 July 1991 * * Brown University * * Providence, RI * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Text Encoding Initiative will hold its first open North American Workshop, in Providence, Rhode Island, on 22 and 23 July 1991. The TEI Workshop is an opportunity to learn more about the TEI's draft Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of Machine-Readable Texts, and to see the principles they describe being used in practical situations. The Workshop will combine detailed presentations, small group discussion, and hands-on experience for participants. Topics to be covered during the workshop will include: * nature and purpose of descriptive markup * basic features of SGML * essential components of the TEI Guidelines * TEI conformance -- what it is and why it matters * an overview of SGML-aware software * using TEI texts with standard software packages WHO CAN ATTEND? Those who have begun or are working with large-scale text projects, SGML-software developers, interested computer center staff, ... The workshop attendance will be limited to ensure that those attending will have ample time for discussion and for the opportunity to try for themselves the full variety of software tools we will be demonstrating. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with a degree of priority given to members of existing TEI Work Groups, Committees and Affiliated Project representatives based in North America who have not previously attended a TEI Workshop. WHO WILL BE THERE? The Workshop is being organized by the TEI Editors, Lou Burnard and Michael Sperberg-McQueen, with additional support from Elaine Brennan and Harry Gaylord, who also ran the TEI Workshop at the recent highly successful ACH/ALLC conference in Tempe, Arizona. The Workshop is being run back to back with a meeting of North American TEI Affiliated Projects, which means that a number of major research projects already using or planning to use the TEI recommendations will also be in attendance. The Workshop is therefore likely to provide an unusual opportunity for interested people to get together with SGML experts, TEI experts, and just plain text hackers. WHERE AND WHEN? The Workshop will be hosted by the Brown University Women Writers Project, a TEI Affiliated Project, and Brown University Computing and Information Services. Brown University is located in Providence, RI, an hour from Boston. The Workshop will begin at 8:30 am on Monday 22 July and finish around 5:00 pm on Tuesday 23 July. HOW MUCH? There will be a fixed charge of $100 per head for workshop participants, $75 for members of ACH, ALLC or ACL. This includes attendance fees and a manual and other illustrative material, together with refreshments. Participants will be responsible for their own travel, accommodation, and meals. Dorm room accommodations can be reserved on the application form; information on hotels in the Providence area is available on request. Expenses for active members of official TEI Working Groups and Working Committees and of one representative from any TEI Affiliated Project will be refunded, subject to the usual limits, provided that they have not previously attended any TEI Workshop. A number of places are reserved specifically for non-TEI affliated participants. The aim of the Workshop is to provide detailed practical experiences in applying the TEI Guidelines to real-life text handling problems, and to demonstrate the practical advantages of following the Guidelines. A wide variety of software solutions will be demonstrated and participants will also be given the opportunity to use state-of-the-art SGML and other software for themselves. ----------------------PRELIMINARY INTEREST STATEMENT--------------------- --------PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN THE FOLLOWING BY MAY 15th------------- TO: wwp@brownvm.brown.edu TEI North American Workshop 22-23 July 1991 Please X as many of the following as apply: o I would definitely like to attend the workshop o I would like to know more about the workshop before committing myself o I cannot attend on the dates specified, but would be interested in other workshops o I have some knowledge of SGML o I have read the Guidelines o I have read part of the Guidelines o I have tried to read the Guidelines Your name: Your e-mail address: Your postal address: Your fax number (if any): ---------------------REQUEST FOR WORKSHOP PLACE-------------------------- ---------PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN THE FOLLOWING BY JUNE 25th----------- TO: wwp@brownvm.brown.edu TEI North American Workshop 22-23 July 1991 Please reserve a place at the workshop for: Name Address E-mail: FAX: Telephone: * I enclose payment of $100 * I am a member of ACH/ALLC/ACL and enclose payment of $75 * I am a member of TEI Work Group/Committee .... * I am the official representative of Affiliated Project ... Checks must be made payable to Brown University. Please note that places will not be reserved unless payment is enclosed with this form. * Please reserve a dorm room for me on Sunday and Monday, ($27.50 per night, single occupancy) * Please send further hotel information. This form should be returned as soon as possible to: TEI North American Workshop c/o Women Writers Project Box 1841 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 tel 401/863-3619 email wwp@brownvm.brown.edu Please note that reservations cannot be accepted after 25 June 91 ********** I.A.2. Fr: Nancy M. Ide (914) 437-5988 Re: TEI European Workshop Announcement An announcement for a TEI workshop to be held in North American was posted earlier. The following is for a similar TEI workshop, to be held in Europe. Living with the Guidelines The European TEI Workshop Oxford University Computing Service July 1-2, 1991 WHAT IS IT? The TEI Workshop is an opportunity for you to learn more about the thinking behind the TEI's draft Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of Machine-Readable Texts, and to see for yourselves how the principles they describe can be used in a practical situation. The Workshop will be a mixture of group discussion work, detailed presentations and hands-on experience. Topics covered will include * nature and purpose of descriptive markup * basic features of SGML * essential components of the TEI Guidelines * TEI conformance -- what it is and why it matters * an overview of SGML aware software * using TEI texts with standard software packages WHO CAN ATTEND? The numbers attending will be limited to ensure that everyone has both a chance to be heard and the opportunity to try for him or herself the full variety of software tools we will be demonstrating. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, with a degree of priority given to members of existing TEI Workgroups, Committees and Affiliated Project representatives based in Europe who have not previously attended a TEI Workshop. WHO WILL BE THERE? The Workshop is being organised by the TEI Editors, Lou Burnard and Michael Sperberg-McQueen, with additional support from Elaine Brennan and Harry Gaylord, who also ran the TEI Workshop at the recent highly successful ACH/ALLC conference in Tempe, Arizona. The European Workshop is being run back to back with the first TEI Affiliated Projects Workshop, which means that a number of important major research projects planning to use the TEI recommendations will also be in attendance. The Workshop is therefore likely to provide an unusual opportunity for SGML experts, TEI experts and just plain text hackers to get together. WHERE AND WHEN? The Workshop will be hosted by Oxford University Computing Service, which is located in the centre of Oxford, one of the most beautiful cities of Europe, (even in the middle of summer when it is traditionally over-run by tourists), an hour's journey from London and within easy reach of the Midlands. Overnight accommodation will be arranged for delegates requesting it on the application form. The Workshop will begin at 0900 on Monday 1st July and finish around 1500 on Tuesday 2nd July. HOW MUCH? There will be a fixed charge of #80 per head for workshop participants, reduced to #60 for members of ACH, ALLC or ACL. This covers attendance fees and a manual and other illustrative material, together with refreshments and lunch on Monday and Tuesday. Attendants will be expected to pay their own travel, accommodation and dinner, but we will do our best to make hotel reservations for anyone requesting this on the application form. All expenses of members of official TEI Working Groups and Working Committees and of one representative from any TEI Affiliated Project will be refunded, subject to the usual limits, provided that they have not previously attended any TEI Workshop. TEI European Workshop RESERVATION FORM Oxford July 1-2 1991 Please reserve a place at the workshop for: Name Address e-mail: FAX: telephone: * I enclose payment of #80 (British sterling) * I am a member of ACH/ALLC/ACL and enclose payment of #60 (British sterling) * I am a member of TEI Workgroup/Committee .... * I am the official representative of Affiliated Project ... Cheques must be made payable to Oxford University Computing Service. Please note that places will not be reserved unless payment is enclosed with this form, except for TEI-funded attendants. * Please reserve overnight accomodation for me on Sunday and Monday, in the price range [ ]#30-#50 [ ]#50-#70 This form should be returned as soon as possible to: TEI Euro-Workshop Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN tel +44 865 273200 fax +44 865 273275 email TEI@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Please note that reservations cannot be accepted after 1 June 91 ********** I.C.1. Fr: Peter Robinson Re: Collate announcement Version 1.0 of Collate -- a new program for the collation of large textual traditions -- is now available. About Collate: Collate aims to help scholars in the preparation of a critical edition based on many sources. It can collate simultaneously up to a hundred texts. It can deal with richly marked-up texts (with special treatment for editorial comments embedded in the text, location markers, editorial expansions and separate collation of punctuation). It provides powerful facilities to allow the scholar to tailor the collation and it can output in many different formats. Collate works interactively with the collation being written to a window as the scholar watches. The scholar may intervene at any point to alter the collation, using either of the tools RSet VariantS or RRegulariseS. RSet VariantS allows the scholar to over-rule the collation offered by Collate and impose his own collation, even writing a variant that does not appear in the sources into the collation. RRegulariseS enables the scholar to intervene to regularise any word or phrase in any source at any point. The regularisation can be set for a particular word at every point in every source, or for that word only at that place in that source, or various other combinations. Collate will record all variants set and every regularisation made and remember them next time it runs. The scholar can adjust the collation in other ways, switching the base text, suppressing agreements with the base text and collating punctuation tokens separately. The collation may be output in various critical apparatus forms (including several formats recommended by the Text Encoding Initiative), or scholars may dictate their own format. Through an interface to the EDMAC macros, developed by John Lavagnino of Brandeis University and Dominik Wujastyk of the Wellcome Institute for the production of complex critical editions with the typesetting language TeX, editions with up to five levels of apparatus can be created direct from the output of Collate. The EDMAC macros and an implementation of TeX (OzTeX) are provided with the program. Automatic generation of hypertext electronic editions from the output is also possible. Texts Collate can Process: The length of texts Collate can process is limited only by the storage capacity of the computer. The only requirement is that the text be divided into blocks containing no more than 32768 words each. Collate works on both prose and verse and has been tested successfully on texts in many languages (including Malay, Sanskrit, Latin, Middle English and Old Norse). A set of Guidelines for Transcription, provided with the program, explains the format transcription files should have so that they can be processed by Collate. The transcription files must be plain ASCII files and can be prepared on any computer. A simple word-processor, Transcribe, is also provided with Collate: this includes various functions specially designed to help transcription. The History of Collate: Collate has been developed as part of the Computers and Manuscripts Project, funded for three years from 1st September 1989 by the Leverhulme Trust at the Oxford University Computing Service with support from Apple Computer. Collate has been written by the Research Officer for the Project, Peter Robinson (PETERR@AC.UK.OX.VAX). The Project Director is Susan Hockey. Program Availability and Requirements: Collate 1.0 runs only on Macintosh computers (Classic or higher) and requires one megabyte of memory to operate. A hard disc is recommended. It can be ordered from: The Computers and Manuscripts Project Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN England. (Phone: 0865 273200; fax 0865 273275; email PETERR@AC.UK.OX.VAX). The program costs 2#0 pounds UK, 40 dollars US. Cheques should be made payable to the Oxford University Computing Service; cheques in pounds must be drawn on a British bank. A demonstration disc of the program is available, free, from the above address. Documentation, sample files, Transcribe (version 1.1) and the OzTeX implementation of TeX for the Macintosh, together with the EDMAC macros, are provided with the program. ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: Raymond A. Savarese Re: Queueing Theory Question Example of proposed implementation: Appl 1 Queue ------------------------------- --------- ------------ | common access area | | ------ ------------ | CONTAINS: | | | ------------ | QUEUE CONTROL INFO | | | ------------ | FOR EACH QUEUE | | | ------------ | - CURRENT COUNT | | | ------------ | - CURRENT COUNT | | | ------------ | - THRESHOLD | | | ------------------------------ | | | | --------------------------------------------------- | | | CONTINUOUS TASK | | | | APPLICATION # 1 ANCHOR TASK | | -------->| | | | ---------------- | | | | APPL 1 INPUT |----> UPDATE QUEUE COUNT | | | ---------------- READ THE Q (DESTRUCTIVE) | | | CHECK THRESHOLD | | | IF EXCEEDED, | | | START CLONE TASK | | | PROCESS Q DATA | | -------------------------------------------------- | | --------------------------------------------------- | | APPLICATION # 1 CLONE TASK | | | | | | ----------------- | | | | APPL 1 INPUT |---> UPDATE QUEUE COUNT | ----------->| ---------------- READ THE Q (DESTRUCTIVE)| | IF QUEUE EMPTY, END | | ELSE PROCESS Q DATA | | | --------------------------------------------------- QUESTIONS: IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RECORDS WRITTEN TO THE QUEUE WILL BE 20 PER SECOND. IT HAS ALSO BEEN DETERMINED THAT A TASK (ANCHOR OR CLONE) WILL TAKE ON AVERAGE 0.165 SECONDS TO PROCESS A RECORD FROM THE QUEUE. WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THEORETICALLY, THE MAXIMUM SIZE NEEDED FOR OUR QUEUE (A RECORD IS TENTATIVELY SET FOR 160 BYTES) UNDER THIS IMPLEMENTATION AND ALSO THE OPTIMAL MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CLONES TO HAVE EXECUTING AT ANY GIVEN TIME. ANY ASSISTANCE WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. PLEASE REPLY VIA E-MAIL. ********** II.B.1. Fr: Hanhwe N. Kim Re: Full text corpuses Hi, I am trying to find some recent and up-to-date full text corpuses to perform information retrieval upon. Are there any that are downloadable through ftp anywhere? Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Han Kim Information Science Univ. of Pittsburgh ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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