LINGUIST List 7.1304

Thu Sep 19 1996

Confs: Electronic texts, Conf honoring Don Foss

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

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1. Susan Hockey, Electronic texts, CETH Workshop Series
2. Kati' van Nice, Conference honoring Don Foss

CETH Workshop Series: Electronic Text Technology in the Humanities

The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) is organizing
a series of three one-day workshops designed to introduce the basics
of working with electronic texts in research and teaching in the
humanities. Each workshop will be self-contained, but the series as a
whole will provide a good overview of the essential tools, techniques
and resources for faculty, graduate students and librarians. The CETH
Workshop Series is designed to assist in the use and management of the
rapidly expanding body of electronic resources available for
humanities scholarship. Basic knowledge of word processing and
familiarity with the Internet are assumed.

Tuesday, October 29, 1996
Electronic Resources for the Humanities
Introduction to creating and capturing electronic text; issues of
standards and quality; electronic textbases and World-Wide Web
resources.

Friday, December 6, 1996
Introduction to text encoding
Survey of text encoding practices. Synopsis of the Text Encoding
Initiative's (TEI) implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup
Language (SGML).

Friday, January 31, 1997
Introduction to textual analysis
Overview of text analysis tools and their applications for: stylistics,

Where: Pane Room, Alexander Library, 169 College Avenue, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ.
When: 9.30am - 4.00pm.
Cost:
	Faculty/staff : $75/workshop; $200 series
	Students: $50/workshop; $125 series
	Registration fee includes lunch and coffee breaks.

Reservations can be made by calling (908) 932-1384 or sending a
message to cethphoenix.princeton.edu. Deadline for reserving space
is two weeks prior to each workshop. Payment should be made to
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and sent to CETH, 169
College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903. Questions should be directed
to Pamela Cohen pacrci.rutgers.edu

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Susan Hockey, Director, Center for Electronic Texts in the
Humanities, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
phone (908) 932-1384; fax (908) 932-1386
E-mail: hockeyrci.rutgers.edu
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 ****** CONFERENCE REMINDER ******

 for

 STRUCTURE AND CONTEXT IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING:
 A psycholinguistic conference in honor of Donald J. Foss

 - IMPORTANT DEADLINES-

 OMNI AUSTIN HOTEL BOOKING DEADLINE
 for discounted rooms
 **TODAY** THURS, 19 SEPTEMBER 1996

 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE
 TUES, 1 OCTOBER 1996
 (no on-site registration)

A conference entitled "Structure and context in language processing: A
psycholinguistic conference in honor of Donald J. Foss" will be held
October 11-12, 1996 in Austin, Texas at the Thompson Conference Center
at the University of Texas. This conference is cosponsored by The
Psychology Department of The University of Texas at Austin, The
Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association, and
friends of Donald J. Foss.

'Structure and context in language processing' is an important theme
for many areas of psycholinguistics -- parsing, speech perception,
language acquisition, language evolution, and others. At the
conference psycholinguists from a variety of areas will come together
to share their theoretical insights and empirical evidence on this
topic. Individually, they focus on different parts of the processing
picture; collectively, they provide insights into processing of a
number of linguistic structures (syntactic, morphological, prosodic,
etc.), in a number of contexts (which involve factors that go beyond
linguistic structure). Invited speakers include: Thomas G. Bever,
Helen Smith Cairns, Charles Clifton, Anne Cutler, Randy L. Diehl,
Catharine H. Echols, David Fay, Kenneth Forster, Merrill F. Garrett,
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Philip Gough, James J. Jenkins, Beth
L. Losiewicz, Peter F. MacNeilage, Richard P. Meier, Robert E. Shaw,
Shari R. Speer, David Swinney, and Kathy Y. van Nice. The closing talk
will be given by our guest of honor, Donald J. Foss.

The registration fee is $75.00 ($40.00 for students), which includes
breaks, lunches, and a reception aboard the Lone Star riverboat on
Friday, October 11. There is an additional fee of $30.00 for those
attending the banquet in honor of Don Foss on Saturday, October
12. Participants must register by the deadline; there will be NO
on-site registration. The FOSS CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE is
very soon: TUES, OCT 1.

Please send requests for registration forms (email or hardcopy) or
further information about the conference to: Joey Walker, Department
of Psychology, Mezes 330, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, Tel:
(512)471-5985, Fax: (512)471-6175, email: Walkerpsy.utexas.edu

The OMNI AUSTIN HOTEL GROUP-RATE DEADLINE is *TODAY*: THURS, SEPT 19.
If you recive this message in time and are interested in a group-rate
room for the Foss conference, call the Omni Austin Hotel immediately
to make your booking -- even if you have not yet sent in your the
conference registration.

Group-rate hotel booking info:
 Omni Austin Hotel, 700 San Jacinto, Austin, TX 78701
 Phone: 512-476-3700 and ask for Reservations
 Be sure to say you are with our conference,
 which is listed under two names:
 (1) University of Texas - Department of Psychology
 (2) The Foss Conference

 Group-Rates (single): $95.00 for Thurs, $89.00 for Fri, $89.00 for
Sat (We expect to have some kind of transport to/from the Omni and
conference site)