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Date: Thu Jan 3 19:51:44 1991
From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDEvaxsar.vassar.edu>
Subject: special issue of Computers and the Humanities


 CALL FOR PAPERS
 The journal of Computers and the Humanities
 Special Issue
 on
 Common Methologies in Computational Linguistics and Humanities Computing

 edited by

 Nancy M. Ide and Donald E. Walker

Recently, panels and sessions at COLING, and conferences of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, the Association for Computers and the Humanities,
and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing have addressed the
increasing merging of methodologies in the fields of computational linguistics
and humanities computing.

On the one hand, computational linguists are devoting considerable attention to
statistical and other quantitative measures traditionally used in humanities
computing. Also, work with large text corpora, long the central activity in
humanities computing, is becoming an important area for computational
linguistics. Computational linguists are now beginning to consider texts, and
even literary texts, as an object of study and a rich source of information
about the phenomena of language and discourse.

On the other hand, humanists are turning to methods for morphological,
syntactic, and semantic analysis developed by computational linguists to
enhance their strategies for literary and linguistic studies.

A special issue of Computers and the Humanities will be devoted to papers that
describe work which falls at the intersection of the fields of computational
linguistics and humanities computing, either in methodology or use of materials.
Papers dealing with computational lexicology and lexicography, corpora and
corpus linguistics, statistical models and methods for language and text
analysis, and syntactic, semantic, and content analytic methods are invited.

All papers should be submitted by May 1, 1991. The special issue is expected to
appear in late spring, 1992.

Papers and requests for information should be sent to:

Nancy M. Ide
Department of Computer Science
Box 520 Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA
idevassar.bitnet
(+1 914) 437-5988
(+1 914) 437-7187 fax

or

Donald E. Walker
Bellcore, MRE 2A379
445 South Street, Box 1910
Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA
walkerflash.bellcore.com
(+1 201) 829-4312
(+1 201) 455-1931 fax

Date: Sun, 6 Jan 91 15:54 CST
From: <ARS7950%TNTECH.BITNETCUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Meeting Announcement and Call for Papers

I. Announcement of Meeting

TECOL XII, the annual meeting of the Tennessee Conference on Linguis-
tics, will be holding its annual meeting TECOL XII at Tennessee Techno-
logical University on Friday and Saturday, 22-23 February 1991.
Membership and registration fees are $8.00.

While the program is not complete, some of the papers being presented
are: "Words from the Novels of Gerald Griffin to be Considered for
Inclusion in the OED" (John McCluskey, University of Tennessee-Martin),
"The Validity of Mary N. Murfree's Literary Dialect" (Michael Montgom-
ery, University of South Carolina-Columbia), "Let the Girls Do the
Spelling and Dan'll Do the Shooting: Literacy and the Division of Labor
in a Rural Eastern Kentucky Community (Anita Puckett, Southeast Communi-
ty College/University of Texas), and "Metathesis in Phonology and
Morphology" (Andrew Allen, Appalachian State University). In addition,
a special session is being developed on "Linguistics and Business: The
Importance of Non-Verbal Communication" to be presented by Professor
Emerita Walburga von Raffler-Engel of the Program in Linguistics,
Vanderbilt University.

Additional information can be obtained from Alan Slotkin, Sec.-Treas.,
TECOL, c/o English Department, Box 5053, TTU, Cookeville, TN 38505 or
through his bitnet address ARS7950TNTECH.bitnet.

II. Call for Papers and Announcements

The Tennessee Conference on Linguistics publishes a journal, Tennessee
Linguistics, appearing in one or two issues per year. The editor
solicits articles, announcements, reviews, etc., that would be of
interest to students and teachers of linguistics and language, especial-
ly those concerning the American South, Tennessee, and continguous
states. Material should be sent to Alan Slotkin, Editor, Tennessee
Linguistics, c/o English Department, Box 5053, TTU, Cookeville, TN 38505
or to his bitnet address ARS7950TNTECH.bitnet.